Massena
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably from a pet form of Masson
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Massena is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
probably from a pet form of Masson.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Massena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 2.7K | — |
| US United States | — | 447 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 128 | — |
| FR France | — | 37 | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Rui Massenab. 1972PTPortuguese composer
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 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.7K | #3,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 447 | #50,535 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 395 | #52,482 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 343 | #55,849 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 128 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 32 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 29 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Massena mean, and where does it come from?
- probably from a pet form of Masson. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Massena have the most bearers?
- Massena is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
What do you want to know about Massena?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/massenaThe 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, “Massena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.