Tasse

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in French: or seller of purses and bags, or nickname for a rich man or a miser, from OF tasse purse (apparently of Arabic origin). Vars.: Tassier, Tassie (agent derivs.) (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/tas/(recorded in a dictionary) French · from Wiktionary

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Tasse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Cameroon than in any other country.

  • CACanada≈1 in 380Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • BEBelgium1 in 837K
  • BRBrazil1 in 875K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Cameroon (inferred from the name graph)

≈430 people, est.

Record sources
132 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)

Cameroon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Tassé in FR France.

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.

How to pronounce Tasse

  • French:/tas/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • English:/tæs/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Portuguese:/tɐʃsɛ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

or seller of purses and bags, or nickname for a rich man or a miser, from OF tasse purse (apparently of Arabic origin). Vars.: Tassier, Tassie (agent derivs.). Dims.: Fr.: Tasset, Tassin, Tasson, Tassot. Pejs.: Fr.: Tassard, Tassaud.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

How Tasse is read

(measured from records)

Tasse 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.

  • French41%

    or seller of purses and bags, or nickname for a rich man or a miser, from OF tasse purse (apparently of Arabic origin). Vars.: Tassier, Tassie (agent derivs.). Dims.: Fr.: Tasset, Tassin, Tasson, Tassot. Pejs.: Fr.: Tassard, Tassaud.

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • English37%

    A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Portuguese7.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Tasse in Portuguese.

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 the surname Tasse is found

(measured from records)

Tasse 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 Tasse is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CM Cameroon≈430 est.≈1 in 68K—Tasse5
BR Brazil2421 in 875K242——
US United States1961 in 1.7M221Tasse132
CA Canada≈110 est.≈1 in 378K—Tasse77
FR France≈38 est.≈1 in 1.8M63Tassé37
BE Belgium141 in 837K14Tasse4

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Tasse is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Canada

    Also written Tassé

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Also written Tassé

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tassé

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Yemen, Canada, Morocco, United States

    Also written Tassé, Tãsse

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Canada, Italy

    Also written Tassé

36 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)

Tasse 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 German, cup with a handle

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, wolf

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dag, 1. hope 2. nig tahima, to hope

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

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)
18801900192019401960Fritz Tasse, b. 1890Ursula Tasse, b. 1923Yves Tasse, b. 1957

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)
FormalMadame, Monsieur,Dear Tasse, (English)
InformalMadame, Monsieur,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tasse mean, and where does it come from?
or seller of purses and bags, or nickname for a rich man or a miser, from OF tasse purse (apparently of Arabic origin). Vars.: Tassier, Tassie (agent derivs.). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
What are other forms of the name Tasse?
In the etymology graph, Tasche is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Tasse?
It depends on the language: in French /tas/ (Wiktionary); in English /tæs/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /tɐʃsɛ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tasse?
Mondonomo estimates about 427 people named Tasse in Cameroon, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tasse. After it come Brazil, United States, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Tasse?
In Brazil, the national register counted 242 people named Tasse, about 1 in 875 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, “Tasse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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