Masse
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Masse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country. Recorded meaning: pet-form of Matthew; first attested Osbertus filius Masse 1177 P (Suffolk).
- FRFrance≈1 in 6.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 11K
- USUnited States1 in 89K
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 Masse 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named มะแซ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled มะแซ in TH Thailand and Massé in MU Mauritius.
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)
pet-form of Matthew; first attested Osbertus filius Masse 1177 P (Suffolk)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #191 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | #61,208 | มะแซ | 73 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Masse | 2 |
| FR France | #285 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 1.6K | Masse | 288 |
| US United States | — | 3,753 | 1 in 89K | 3.8K | Masse | 303 |
| CA Canada | #823 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Masse | 157 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Masse | 7 |
| MU Mauritius | #985 | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Massé | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Masse 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 English, from Middle Dutch masse ‘clog’; ‘cudgel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who wielded a club.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, 2. French (Picardy): metonymic occupational name from masse ‘mace’, ‘hammer’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, habitational name from a place called Masse in Maine-et-Loire, so named from GalloRoman Macciacum (from the personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, possibly a variant of Maas 1, or a patronymic from Mas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, Obsolete form of mass.
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)
- Jean-Baptiste Masseb. 1700FRFrench composer and cellist
- Jean Masseb. 1911FRFrench politician (1911-1987)
- Marcel Masseb. 1936CACanadian politician (1936–2014)
- Francis Masseb. 1948FRFrench cartoonist
- Élisabeth Masseb. 1954FRFrench politician
- Christophe Masseb. 1963FRFrench politician
- Bill Masseb. 1966USbaseball player
- Brian Masseb. 1968CACanadian politician
- Julie Masseb. 1970CACanadian singer
- Kylie Masseb. 1996CACanadian swimmer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.8K | #8,741 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,469 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 1.9K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 1.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1.5K | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Masse mean, and where does it come from?
- pet-form of Matthew; first attested Osbertus filius Masse 1177 P (Suffolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Masse?
- In the etymology graph, Maza and Mazza are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Masse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named มะแซ in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Masse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,753 people named Masse in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
- How common is Masse compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Masse is the 191st most common surname of 1,135,150 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masseThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Masse” — the 191st most common surname in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.