Maaß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Former spelling of Maß which is no longer standard
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maaß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 179Kas Maass
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 95Kas Maass
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 Maaß 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maass in US United States, GB United Kingdom, ZA South Africa 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)
Former spelling of Maß which is no longer standard.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maaß 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #528 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Maaß | 127 |
| US United States | — | 1,856as Maass | 1 in 179K | 1.9K | Maass | 224 |
| BR Brazil | — | 745as Maass | 1 in 284K | 745 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Maass | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 296K | 50 | Maass | 40 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Maass | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50as Maass | 1 in 117K | 50 | Maass | 27 |
| FI Finland | — | 48as Maass | 1 in 116K | 48 | Maass | 1 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Maaß is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Thomas, Aramaic t'oma 'twin'
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)
- Johann Maassb. 1766DEGerman psychologist (1766–1823)
- Bruno Maaßb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1964)
- Hermann Maaßb. 1897PLGerman resistance fighter (1897-1944)
- Gertrud Maassb. 1919DEGerman politician (1919-2004)
- Dieter Maaßb. 1939DEGerman politician (1939-2018)
- Erich Maaßb. 1944DEGerman politician
- Stefan Maaßb. 1965DEGerman actor
- Christian Maaßb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Paul Maaßb. 1980DEGerman actor
- Sebastian Maaßb. 1981DEGerman author
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 4 sources across 2 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 Maaß mean, and where does it come from?
- Former spelling of Maß which is no longer standard. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Maaß have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Maaß in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maaß.
- How common is the name Maaß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,856 people named Maass in 2010, about 1 in 179 thousand residents.
- How common is Maaß compared with other names?
- In Germany, Maaß is the 528th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maa%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, “Maaß” — the 528th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.