Masset
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/masɛ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Masset is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: see Massett .
- BEBelgium1 in 8.6K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 18K
- USUnited States1 in 1.8M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 229 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
see Massett .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masset 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 499 | Masset | 229 |
| BE Belgium | #293 | 1,361 | 1 in 8.6K | 1.4K | Masset | 69 |
| AR Argentina | — | 368 | 1 in 124K | 368 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 184 | 1 in 1.8M | 199 | Masset | 127 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 141 | 1 in 60K | 141 | Masset | 15 |
| SE Sweden | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Masset | 1 |
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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
- Jean Massetb. 1501FRFrench writer
- Nicolas Jean Jacques Massetb. 1811BEBelgian composer (1811-1903)
- Lucien Massetb. 1914FRFrench artistic gymnast (1914-2005)
- Jean-Pierre Massetb. 1936FRFrench diplomat (1936-2010)
- Roselyne Masset-Lecocqb. 1950FRFrench composer
- Christian Massetb. 1957FRFrench diplomat
- Marie-Christine Massetb. 1961FRFrench poet
- Françoise Massetb. 1962FRFrench soprano
- Nick Massetb. 1982USbaseball player from the United States
- Daan MassetBEBelgian radio presenter
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1.4K | #882 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 1.3K | #953 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 621 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 619 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 608 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 595 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 544 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 499 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 471 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 460 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 378 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 368 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- How do you pronounce Masset?
- A machine transcription gives /masɛ/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Masset mean?
- Recorded meaning: see Massett .
- In which country does Masset have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Masset in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masset.
- Where is Masset most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Masset is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 8.6 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Masset?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,361 people named Masset in 2008, about 1 in 8.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Masset compared with other names?
- In Belgium, Masset is the 293rd most common surname of 246,397 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/massetThe 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, “Masset” — the 293rd most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.