Mashina
org · Latin script
Meaning, in Uzbek: machine (mechanical or electrical device)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mashina is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.5Kas Masina(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 51Kas Машина
- UAUkraine≈1 in 103Kas Машина
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mashina itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Masina, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Машина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more and Masina in ZA South Africa, MW Malawi, IT Italy.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
plural of shina
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mashina is read(measured from records)
Mashina is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Uzbek100%
machine (mechanical or electrical device)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili9.1%
plural of shina
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mashina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #392 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Masina | 41 |
| MW Malawi | #517 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Masina | 11 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Машина | 120 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Машина | 26 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Masina | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | 181as Mašina | 1 in 23K | 181 | — | — |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Машина | 10 |
| FI Finland | — | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | Машина | 3 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Mashina 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 Spanish, machine, vehicle
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #36,826 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mashina come from?
- plural of shina Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Mashina mean?
- In Uzbek, machine (mechanical or electrical device)
- In which country does Mashina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Masina in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mashina most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mashina is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mashina?
- In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Mashina, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
- How common is Mashina compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Mashina is the 392nd most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mashinaThe 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, “Mashina” — the 392nd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.