Maassen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a place-name Maas/Maas; origin name
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmɑsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maassen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 6.3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 479K
- DEGermany≈1 in 31Kas Maaßen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maassen itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.3K (inferred from the name graph)
2,752 people, 2007
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maaßen in DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a place-name Maas/Maas; origin name
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maassen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #528 | 2,752 | 1 in 6.3K | 2.8K | Maassen | 72 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | listed | Maaßen | 104 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Maassen | 1 |
| US United States | — | 694 | 1 in 479K | 728 | Maassen | 166 |
| BE Belgium | — | 227 | 1 in 52K | 227 | Maassen | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 48 | 1 in 114K | 48 | Maassen | 4 |
2,752 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the dfa-band-3 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maassen is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym zu Thomas; 443+1501 Belege. -ss/-ß- und -sen-Varianten kennzeichnen die patronymische Bildung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 443+1501.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
patronymic from Maas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Friedrich Maassenb. 1823DEGerman jurist and academic (1823-1900)
- Hermann Maassenb. 1915DEGerman jurist and lawyer (1915-2008)
- Lambert Maassenb. 1941NLDutch football player (1941-2018)
- Wolfgang Maassenb. 1949DEGerman teacher, publisher, philatelist and philately historian (born 1949)
- Peter J. Maassenb. 1955USAmerican justice
- Hans-Georg Maaßenb. 1962DEnot in their usual nameGerman civil servant and lawyer
- Frans Maassenb. 1965NLDutch racing cyclist
- Theo Maassenb. 1966NLDutch actor
- Sascha Maassenb. 1969DEGerman racecar driver
- Xavier Maassenb. 1980NLDutch racing driver
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.8K | #392 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 728 | #33,651 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 694 | #32,994 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 644 | #33,425 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 227 | #7,439 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 201 | #8,963 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 48 | #26,533 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 3 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maassen mean, and where does it come from?
- from a place-name Maas/Maas; origin name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Maassen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑsən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maassen have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Maassen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maassen.
- Where is Maassen most common?
- Maassen is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maassen?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,752 people named Maassen in 2007, about 1 in 6.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Maassen compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Maassen is the 528th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maassenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Maassen” — the 528th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.