Mazza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mazza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In English, recorded as Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 41K
- UYUruguay1 in 2.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mazza itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
1. nickname or metonymic occupational name from mazza ‘club’, ‘mace’, ‘sledgehammer’. 2. nickname for a destmctive individual, from a derivative of Italian (am)mazzare ‘to kill or destroy’ (Latin mactare).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mazza is read(measured from records)
Mazza is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mazza in Spanish.
- Italian7.9%
1. nickname or metonymic occupational name from mazza ‘club’, ‘mace’, ‘sledgehammer’. 2. nickname for a destmctive individual, from a derivative of Italian (am)mazzare ‘to kill or destroy’ (Latin mactare).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
baton
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
do verbo mazzare (‘matar’); de mazza (‘clava, maça’); também pode vir de nome germânico ou de Mattius
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mazza 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 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Mazza | 4 |
| IT Italy | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Mazza | 89 |
| US United States | 8,043 | 1 in 41K | 8.1K | Mazza | 369 |
| AR Argentina | 5,463 | 1 in 8.3K | 5.5K | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 2,811 | 1 in 75K | 2.8K | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 1,186 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.2K | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 994as Mácha | 1 in 11K | 994 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 637 | 1 in 13K | 637 | Mazza | 18 |
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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mazza is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In scn, club
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Maltese, mace
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Damiano Mazzab. 1550ITItalian painter (1550–1576)
- Paolo Mazzab. 1901ITItalian footballer (1901-1981)
- Marc Mazzab. 1938FRFrench actor
- Gianni Mazzab. 1944ITItalian conductor and composer (born 1944)
- José Luis Mazzab. 1947ARactor
- Giampaolo Mazzab. 1956SMfootballer; football manager
- Fulvio Mazzab. 1956ITItalian historian (born 1956)
- Valeria Mazzab. 1972ARArgentine model
- Maria Mazzab. 1975ITItalian model and actor
- Benedetta Mazzab. 1989ITItalian actress
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 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.1K | #4,040 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8K | #4,417 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,526 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.8K | #3,627 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 637 | #1,993 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 13 | #68,481 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 13 | #17,250 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Where does the name Mazza come from?
- 1. nickname or metonymic occupational name from mazza ‘club’, ‘mace’, ‘sledgehammer’. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Mazza mean?
- In English, Madness; something that is mad; a crazy situation.
- What are other forms of the name Mazza?
- In the etymology graph, Maza, Masse and Mazzarella are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mazza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Mazza in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mazza.
- Where is Mazza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mazza is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mazza?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,043 people named Mazza in 2010, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
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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, “Mazza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.