Mastin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: partly an occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog’; ‘manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmæstɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mastin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 81K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 95K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 2.8K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 285 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Old Frenchmastin(measured from records)
- Latinmansuetudinus(measured from records)
partly an occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog’; ‘manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). The Old French word had the further sense of a bad-tempered dog, and was used as an adjective in the sense of ‘bad’, ‘cruel’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mastin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mastin | 3 |
| KP North Korea | #286 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Mastin | 2 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Mastin | 1 |
| US United States | — | 4,085 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Mastin | 285 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Mastin | 71 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Mastin | 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: 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)
Mastin is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fro, guard dog
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, mâtin ; cliquet
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Basque, Mastín. Artzaiak lokartu zren ta txakur mastina ere bai . ZMoso 41. Artsalde batez agertu zaikun gure korliala mastin txakurko bat . Ib. 40. Otsoen kontra emateko bazren txakur andiak ta diaitzen zren mastinak . Ib. 35.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- John Mastinb. 1865GBUK writer, clergyman and science popularizer (1865-1932), author of three science fiction novels (1865–1932)
- Philip Mastinb. 1930USAmerican politician
- James Mastinb. 1935USAmerican sculptor and painter
- Philippe Mastinb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Isabelle MastinFRFrench journalist
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 17 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,195 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,626 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Mastin mean, and where does it come from?
- partly an occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog’; ‘manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mastin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæstɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mastin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Mastin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mastin.
- How common is the name Mastin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,085 people named Mastin in 2010, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Mastin compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Mastin is the 286th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mastinThe 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, “Mastin” — the 286th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.