Mäs

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Mäs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 459as Maes(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 9.7Kas Maes
  • FRFrance≈1 in 16Kas Maes

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 Mäs 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.

Belgium (measured from records)

25,524 named Maes, 2008

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
304 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MaesLatin(measured from records)
메스Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maes in US United States, BE Belgium, ES Spain and 2 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)
Derivation of Mäs: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Mäs
  1. Old Catalanmas(measured from records)
  2. Latinmānsum(measured from records)

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

Cited for this meaning 6

Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mäs 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 Mäs is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium#325,524as Maes1 in 45926KMaes157
ES Spain—21,9151 in 2.3K22KMaes101
US United States—20,366as Metz1 in 16K20KMaes304
FR France—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 16K1.1KMaes250
AR Argentina—3,4891 in 13K3.5K—5
NL Netherlands#7631,779as Maes1 in 9.7K1.8KMaes71
UY Uruguay—1,7001 in 2K1.7K——

25,524 people counted by Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register), 2008. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Mäs is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria

    Also written Mãs, Màs, Mâś, M'As, Mâs

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Mas, Mås, Más

  • Croatian surname30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Mass, Маш, Más, Mas, Màs

6 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Mäs 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 cau-lzg-pro, 1 bed 2 nest

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In cau-lzg-pro, tinder

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In urj-prm-pro, cow (female cattle)

    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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, 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 Mäs mean, and where does it come from?
Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 4 other sources.
In which country does Mäs have the most bearers?
In Belgium, the national register counted about 26 thousand people named Maes, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mäs most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mäs is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Belgium holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mäs?
In Spain, the national register counted 21,915 people named Mäs, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Mäs compared with other names?
In Belgium, Mäs is the 3rd most common surname of 246,397 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, “Mäs” — the 3rd most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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