Masella
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a feminine pet form of the personal name Maso (see Masi)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məˈsɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masella is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ITItaly
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a feminine pet form of the personal name Maso (see Masi).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Masella is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Maso com sufixo fem. sing. -ella
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Gaetano Aloisi Masellab. 1826ITItalian cardinal (1826–1902)
- Pietro Masellab. 1924CACanadian oboist
- Joseph Masellab. 1925CAFrench hornist
- Fredy Masellab. 1935GTGuatemalan soccer player
- Maria Masellab. 1948ITItalian writer
- Joseph Masellab. 1948American mobster
- Martin Masellab. 1969AUTongan rugby league footballer
- Paolo Masellab. 1997ITItalian butcher and television personality
- Davide Masellab. 2002football player
- Alfons MasellaTOTongan rugby league footballer
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 709 | #34,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 679 | #33,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 674 | #32,227 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 128 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 92 | #67,365 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 25 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Masella mean, and where does it come from?
- from a feminine pet form of the personal name Maso (see Masi). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Masella?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈsɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Masella have the most bearers?
- Masella is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Masella?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masellaThe 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, “Masella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.