Mas

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Мась in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and Маш in KZ Kazakhstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mas is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• French surname52K records spelled Mas7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Belgium

  Also written Màs, M'As, Mãs, Más, Mà'S

• English surname40K records spelled Mas65 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Belgium, United States, France, Netherlands

  Languages: English, Dutch, German

  Also written Maes, Mäs, Màs, Ma'S, Mãs

• Arabic surname3.7K records spelled Mas8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

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

• a separate surname2.9K records spelled Mas7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain, India, Peru

  Also written Maš, Mās, Mâs, Màs, Más

• Lao surname2.7K records spelled Mas7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Peru, Spain, Thailand

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Màs, Mâs, ̶M̶a̶s̶, Más

• Khmer surname1.9K records spelled Mas5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, India, Singapore

  Also written Mãs, Más, Mās, Mås

• Chinese surname1.7K records spelled Mas4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, United States, Malaysia, Peru

  Also written Ma'S, M'As, Más

62 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●

Mas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• from a short form of Thomas. Compare Maas 1 and Mass.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In French, farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Catalan, farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, forma dialetal set. de Maso; pode indicar origem em localidades chamadas Mas

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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.

Over time●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Josep Vicenç Foixb. 1893ESnot in their usual namewriter and Poet
• Andreu Mas-Colellb. 1944ESCatalan economist and politician from Spain
• Artur Mas i Gavarrób. 1956ESSpanish politician (born 1956)
• Jorge Masb. 1963USAmerican businessman
• Jordi Cruz Masb. 1978ESSpanish chef
• Nicolas Masb. 1980FRFrench rugby union player
• Victoria Masb. 1987FRFrench novelist
• Lluís Masb. 1989ESSpanish cyclist
• Enric Masb. 1995ESSpanish cyclist
• Oriol Busquets Masb. 1999ESSpanish association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 70 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mas?

We estimate roughly 30 thousand people bear Mas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Mas have the most bearers?

We estimate about 22 thousand people bear Mas in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mas.

Where is Mas most common?

Mas is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Mas compared with other names?

In Spain, Mas is the 198th most common surname of 492,691 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Mas mean?

Recorded meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in an isolated dwelling in the country, rather than in a village, from Catalan and Occitan mas ‘farmstead’ (Late Latin mansum, mansus).