Masia
surname · Latin script
Meaning: country house
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/masja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 25K
- ESSpain1 in 29K
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 Masia 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
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
country house
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masia 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); 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)
Masia 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 grt, to know
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, " Masia handirik eztut egin " SP (sin trad.; Arch UFH, que lo toma de aquí, traduce "je n'ai pas fait grand' chose") .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Massenzio Masiab. 1902ITItalian politician (1902-1944)
- Luca Masiab. 1962ITItalian advertiser, writer and dramatist
- Giuseppe Masiab. 1963ITItalian comedian and singer-songwriter
- Gioia Masiab. 1977ITItalian footballer
- Marco Masiaresearcher
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 36 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,742 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,741 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 119 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 103 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 16 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Masia mean, and where does it come from?
- country house Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Masia?
- A machine transcription gives /masja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Masia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Masia in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masia.
- How common is the name Masia?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,723 people named Masia, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masiaThe 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, “Masia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.