Masina
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Maso com sufixo fem
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məsinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 3.5K(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 Masina 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 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 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)
Locally spelled Машина in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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)
de Maso com sufixo fem. sing. -ina
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masina 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 |
| IN India | — | 254 | 1 in 5.2M | 254 | Masina | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | 181 | 1 in 23K | 181 | — | — |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Машина | 10 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Masina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Masi
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In Hungarian, machine (a device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, genitive singular of masin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malagasy, salty (tasting of salt)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In klw, machine; generator
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)
- Angelo Masinib. 1815ITnot in their usual name1815-1849
- Francesco Masinab. 1886CHSwiss politician (1886-1966)
- Giulietta Masinab. 1921ITItalian actress (1921–1994)
- Ettore Masinab. 1928ITItalian journalist, writer and politician (1928–2017)
- Maria Mazinab. 1964RUnot in their usual nameRussian women's épée fencer
- Dennis Masinab. 1982SZFootballer
- Adam Masinab. 1994MAMoroccan association football player
- Sifiso Masinab. 1999ZASouth African canoeist
- Highlyyb. 2003GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer
- Marco MasinaITresearcher
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 30 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 456 | #7,608 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 254 | #14,998 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- 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 Masina mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Maso com sufixo fem.
- Where does the name Masina come from?
- de Maso com sufixo fem. sing. -ina Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Masina?
- A machine transcription gives /məsinə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Masina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Masina in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masina.
- How common is the name Masina?
- In India, the national register counted 254 people named Masina, about 1 in 5.2 million residents.
- How common is Masina compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Masina 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/masinaThe 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, “Masina” — the 392nd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.