Massó

surname · Latin script

Massó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country. Recorded meaning: probably variant spelling of mago ‘pickaxe’, nickname for someone who worked as stonecutter, from the diminutive of maga ‘mace’.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 81K
  • USUnited States1 in 332K

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.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,200 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
203 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MassóLatin(measured from records)
МассоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Masso in US United States, ES Spain, AR Argentina and 5 more.

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 variant spelling of mago ‘pickaxe’, nickname for someone who worked as stonecutter, from the diminutive of maga ‘mace’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Massó 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.

Where Massó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 6.7K—Masso7
ES Spain—1,8741 in 27K1.9KMasso81
US United States—1,0011 in 332K1.1KMasso203
AR Argentina—5601 in 81K560Masso40
IT Italy—≈460 est.≈1 in 136KlistedMasso9
SE Sweden—1611 in 63K161Masso7
PR Puerto Rico#865≈150 est.≈1 in 21K—Masso7
EE Estonia—≈37 est.≈1 in 33KlistedMasso10

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Massó is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Masso, Massò, Mass-O

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Masso

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Spain

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Masso, Mässo

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, United States

    Also written Masso

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Spain, Sweden

    Also written Masso, Massô

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Japan

    Also written Masso

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Masso

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Masso

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Francesc Bonifaç i Massó, b. 1735Facundo Bacardi, b. 1814Jaume Massó i Torrents, b. 1863Joan Garriga i Massó, b. 1871José Nogué Massó, b. 1880Josep Massó i Ventós, b. 1891Maria del Carme Nicolau Massó, b. 1901Enric Massó i Urgellès, b. 1914Rafael Ribó, b. 1945María de los Llanos Massó Linares, b. 1965

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Massó mean, and where does it come from?
probably variant spelling of mago ‘pickaxe’, nickname for someone who worked as stonecutter, from the diminutive of maga ‘mace’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Massó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Massó in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masso.
How common is the name Massó?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,874 people named Massó, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is Massó compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Massó is the 865th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Massó” — the 865th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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