Masuka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Masuka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 8K(inferred from the name graph)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 16K
- ZMZambia≈1 in 66K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Masuka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Masuka | 16 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 8K | listed | Masuka | 19 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Masuka | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 237K | 2 | — | 3 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Masuka | 5 |
| NA Namibia | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 7 | 1 in 1.7M | 7 | Masuka | 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: ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 7 | #85,186 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Talatala — Assemblée Nationale Députés Nationaux (current legislature, 2024-2028) | 2026 | 2 | #30 |
| NA Namibia | ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates | 2025 | 1 | #15 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- In which country does Masuka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Masuka in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled masuka.
- How common is the name Masuka?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 7 people named Masuka in 2008, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Masuka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/masukaThe 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, “Masuka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.