Massara
surname · Latin script
Meaning: feminine form of Massaro or from the equivalent occupational or status name in medieval Greek, massaras ‘peasant’, ‘share cropper’, from massaria ‘small farm’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/massaɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Massara is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 60K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 43K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine form of Massaro or from the equivalent occupational or status name in medieval Greek, massaras ‘peasant’, ‘share cropper’, from massaria ‘small farm’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Massara 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | Massara | 30 |
| AR Argentina | 762 | 1 in 60K | 762 | Massara | 38 |
| US United States | 324 | 1 in 1M | 361 | Massara | 38 |
| BR Brazil | 228 | 1 in 929K | 228 | Massara | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 603K | — | Massara | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 29 | 1 in 290K | 29 | — | 2 |
| HN Honduras | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Massara | 2 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Giuseppe Filippo Massarab. 1792botanist (1792-1839)
- Rosa Massara De Capitanib. 1869ITmilanese poet
- Enrico Massarab. 1918ITItalian politician
- Pino Massarab. 1931ITItalian musician, composer, record producer and conductor (1931–2013)
- Massimo Massarab. 1935historian (1935-)
- Natale Massarab. 1942ITItalian composer, conductor, arranger, producer, saxophonist and clarinetist
- Rooney Massarab. 1943GBBritish rower
- Giuseppe Sigillò Massarab. 1965ITItalian lawyer
- Francesca Paola Massarab. 1968ITItalian archaeologist (born 1968)
- Indiana Massarab. 2002AUAustralian singer, actress, model, and Internet personality
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 762 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 361 | #53,659 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 339 | #63,550 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 324 | #61,899 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 228 | #32,990 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 29 | #28,044 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Massara mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine form of Massaro or from the equivalent occupational or status name in medieval Greek, massaras ‘peasant’, ‘share cropper’, from massaria ‘small farm’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Massara?
- A machine transcription gives /massaɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Massara have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Massara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled massara.
- How common is the name Massara?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 762 people named Massara, about 1 in 60 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/massaraThe 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, “Massara”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.