Maschke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal names Thomas (compare Maas), Mas, or Matthias (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/mɐʃt͡ʃk/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Maschke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 185K
- CACanada≈1 in 420Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Maschke
- Portuguese:/mɐʃt͡ʃk/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of the personal names Thomas (compare Maas), Mas, or Matthias.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Maschke is found
(measured from records)Maschke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Maschke | 111 |
| US United States | 383 | 1 in 869K | 383 | Maschke | 123 |
| BR Brazil | 167 | 1 in 1.3M | 167 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Maschke | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 638K | — | Maschke | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 422K | — | Maschke | 32 |
| AT Austria | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Maschke | 18 |
| CZ Czechia | 58 | 1 in 185K | 58 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 16 | 1 in 525K | 16 | Maschke | 10 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Maschke is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Wahrscheinlich slaw. Patronym/Kurzform zu einem Rufnamen auf Ma-, z.B. Thomas; bearer count 1577.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum auf -schke; zu Thomas, Matthäus, Malomir. Bearer count: 1577.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Heinrich Maschkeb. 1853PLmathematician (1853–1908)
- Erich Maschkeb. 1900DEGerman historian (1900–1982)
- Günter Maschkeb. 1943DEGerman journalist and writer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maschke mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal names Thomas (compare Maas), Mas, or Matthias. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maschke?
- In Portuguese /mɐʃt͡ʃk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maschke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.3 thousand people named Maschke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maschke. After it come United States, Brazil, Philippines and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Maschke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 383 people named Maschke in 2010, about 1 in 869 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maschke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maschkeThe 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, “Maschke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.