Maß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: measure
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 107Kas Mass(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 129Kas Mass
- SGSingapore≈1 in 67Kas Mass
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 Maß 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
2,588 named Mass, 2010
Highest-authority source
Singapore, est., as Mass
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mass in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada and 3 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)
measure
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,588as Mass | 1 in 129K | 2.7K | Mass | 298 |
| BR Brazil | 1,388as Mass | 1 in 153K | 1.4K | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Mass | 86 |
| FR France | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 113K | 19 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Mass | 66 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Mass | 17 |
| SG Singapore | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Mass | 6 |
| EE Estonia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 8 | Mass | 4 |
2,588 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Maß 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 German, size
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, FN. Mark(t)scheffel; Scheffel-, Schep(p) e r - mann; Scfaep(e)lar (x schapel) Schaff-: s. auch Schafhäutle
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Konrad Maßb. 1867DEGerman politician and author (1867-1950)
- Helene Maßb. 1871DEGerman painter (1871-1955)
- Willy Maßb. 1880DEGerman architect
- Rochelle Massb. 1943ILIsraeli poet
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Maß mean, and where does it come from?
- measure Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- What are other forms of the name Maß?
- In the etymology graph, Maat, Messen and Mäßig are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Maß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Mass, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Maß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,588 people named Mass in 2010, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maß?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C3%9FThe 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, “Maß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.