Mascia
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mascia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: l.from a feminine form of Mascio.
- USUnited States1 in 308K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 11K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 108K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Sicilianmascia(measured from records)
- Salentinemascia(measured from records)
l.from a feminine form of Mascio. 2. occupational name from Sicilian mascia ‘dressmaker’. 3. from Salentine mascia ‘mask’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mascia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Mascia | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 3 | Mascia | 46 |
| US United States | 1,079 | 1 in 308K | 1.1K | Mascia | 215 |
| EG Egypt | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Mascia | 5 |
| FR France | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 219K | 41 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 287 | 1 in 158K | 287 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 78 | 1 in 108K | 78 | Mascia | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Mascia | 3 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Mascia | 1 |
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; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mascia 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 Italian, forma feminina de Mascio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In vec, feminine singular of mascio
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)
- Luciano Masciab. 1897ITItalian diplomat (1897-1960)
- Nello Masciab. 1946ITItalian actor (born 1946)
- Graziella Masciab. 1953ITItalian politician (1953-2018)
- Manuela Masciab. 1962ITItalian sailor
- Michele Masciab. 1971ITresearcher
- Giuseppe Masciab. 1975ITItalian politician (born 1975)
- Alberto Masciab. 1980ITItalian association football manager
- Juan Cruz Masciab. 1994UYUruguayan footballer (born 1994)
- Tiziana MasciaITItalian pedagogue
- Tiziana MasciaITItalian biologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,236 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,999 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 287 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 78 | #13,335 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 11 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Mascia come from?
- l.from a feminine form of Mascio. 2. occupational name from Sicilian mascia ‘dressmaker’. 3. from Salentine mascia ‘mask’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Mascia mean?
- Recorded meaning: l.from a feminine form of Mascio.
- In which country does Mascia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Mascia in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mascia.
- How common is the name Mascia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,079 people named Mascia in 2010, about 1 in 308 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masciaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mascia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.