Masela

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məzɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Masela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 823K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 12M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

21 people, 2007

Sources
27 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 823K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Masela 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.

Where Masela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands211 in 823K21—1
BE Belgium11 in 12M1Masela4
FR France———Masela27
ZA South Africa———Masela6
CD Congo - Kinshasa———Masela4

21 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Masela is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Mašela

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Masela,
InformalHi Masela,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Masela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200721#48,496
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#170,020

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Masela?
A machine transcription gives /məzɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Masela have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 21 people named Masela, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Masela most common?
Masela is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 823 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Masela?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21 people named Masela in 2007, about 1 in 823 thousand residents.

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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, “Masela”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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