Mascara
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Tous les étymologistes ne sont pas d’accord sur l’origine du mot mascara
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mæskæɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mascara is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 311K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Tous les étymologistes ne sont pas d’accord sur l’origine du mot mascara. Pour certains, il dérive de la ville algérienne de Mouaskar qui s’appelait autrefois Maskara. Pour d’autres, comme le Petit Larousse , le mot dérive de l’italien maschera qui signifie masque.
Sources 1
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mascara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Mascara | 6 |
| US United States | 218 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | — | 128 |
| IT Italy | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 311K | listed | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 132 | 1 in 1.6M | 132 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 11 | 1 in 4.1M | 11 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Mascara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dept, Algeria
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, synonym of Wimperntusche (“mascara”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of mascar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of mascar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A cosmetic used to darken and thicken the eyelashes.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Frank Mascarab. 1930USAmerican politician (1930–2011)
- Giuseppe Mascarab. 1979ITItalian footballer
- Tamara Mascarab. 1987ATAustrian drag queen, DJ, fashion designer, presenter
- Tina MascaraUSAmerican film director
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 219 | #80,502 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 218 | #85,659 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #51,233 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Mascara?
- A machine transcription gives /mæskæɹə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Mascara mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tous les étymologistes ne sont pas d’accord sur l’origine du mot mascara.
- In which country does Mascara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Mascara in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mascara.
- How common is the name Mascara?
- In the United States, the national register counted 218 people named Mascara in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mascaraThe 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, “Mascara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.