Maza
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: metonymic occupational name for someone who had a mace as a symbol of office or who carried one in ceremonial possessions, from Spanish maza ‘mace’ (Late Latin mattea, probably of Germanic origin)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 22 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/ˈma.sa/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Maza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 2K
- ARArgentina1 in 3.2K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 246 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)metonymic occupational name for someone who had a mace as a symbol of office or who carried one in ceremonial possessions, from Spanish maza ‘mace’ (Late Latin mattea, probably of Germanic origin). In some cases it may have been used as a metonymic occupational name for a soldier who used a mace in its original function as a weapon.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maza is read
(measured from records)Maza is one spelling over 2 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.
- Spanish87%
metonymic occupational name for someone who had a mace as a symbol of office or who carried one in ceremonial possessions, from Spanish maza ‘mace’ (Late Latin mattea, probably of Germanic origin). In some cases it may have been used as a metonymic occupational name for a soldier who used a mace in its original function as a weapon.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname derived from mazac ‘to smear’, ‘sully’, ‘rub out’. The exact meaning of the nickname is unclear. Compare Maziarz.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
one who had a mace as a symbol of office or who carried one in ceremonial possessions, from Sp. maza mace (LL mattea, probably of Gmc origin; cf. OE mattuc mattock). In some cases it may have been used as an occupational nickname for a soldier who used a mace in its original func¬ tion as a weapon.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
mace, club (weapon)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English5.3%
An Ancient Greek barley cake.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)Maza 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.
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Maza 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 Latin, maza; kneaded mass of roasted barley-meal mixed with water, milk, wine or oil, worked into a solid paste and eaten unbaked; barley cake
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)- Antonia Mazab. 1804AR1st lady of Buenos Aires
- Mariano Mazab. 1809ARArgentine military personnel
- José Maza Fernándezb. 1889CLChilean politician (1889-1964)
- Bob Mazab. 1939AUAustralian actor (1939-2000)
- José Manuel Maza Martínb. 1951ESSpanish prosecutor, judge, criminologist and writer
- Ada Mercedes Mazab. 1951ARArgentine politician
- Jason Mazab. 1987GBBritish actor
- Carlos Mazab. 1988USAmerican journalist
- Ibrahim Mazab. 2005DEAlgerian-German footballer
- Rachael MazaAUAustralian 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)39 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 22 countries.
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Maza mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for someone who had a mace as a symbol of office or who carried one in ceremonial possessions, from Spanish maza ‘mace’ (Late Latin mattea, probably of Germanic origin). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Maza?
- In the etymology graph, Mace, Mazza and Masse are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Maza?
- In Spanish /ˈma.sa/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Maza have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Maza in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maza.
- Where is Maza most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maza is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maza?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 14,233 people named Maza, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Maza compared with other names?
- In Peru, Maza is the 307th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mazaThe 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, “Maza” — the 307th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.