MaSoe
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
MaSoe is a surname, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Samoa it is the 41st most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M◐
- WSSamoa1 in 2.4K
- ESSpain1 in 26K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.7K ●
- Sources
- 132 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 12 countries
6.1K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Maso in US United States, ES Spain, PH Philippines and 10 more and Maşo in TR Türkiye.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 1,896△ | 260 rec. | 1 in 26K | 1.9K | Maso | 42 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,148△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 184K | 1.1K | — | 3 |
| PH Philippines | — | 539 | 505 rec. | — | — | Maso | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 430 | 421 rec. | — | — | MaSoe | 31 |
| IT Italy | — | 400 | 343 rec. | — | 2 | Maso | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 339 | 441 rec. | — | — | Maso | 15 |
| AR Argentina | — | 238 | 0 rec. | 1 in 191K | 238 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 213 | 3.1K rec. | 1 in 1.6M | 370 | Maso | 132 |
| DE Germany | — | 176 | 190 rec. | — | — | Maso | 26 |
| IE Ireland | — | 143 | 145 rec. | — | — | Maso | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | 107 | 116 rec. | — | — | Maso | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 85 | 101 rec. | — | — | Maso | 25 |
Roughly 1.9K people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 26K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English61880%
- Spanish365%
- Swahili243%
- Japanese192%
- Thai101%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 618 | 80% |
| Spanish | 36 | 5% |
| Swahili | 24 | 3% |
| Japanese | 19 | 2% |
| Thai | 10 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Mika Masoeb. 1963USAmerican Samoan boxer (born 1963)
- Maselino Masoeb. 1966NZAmerican Samoan boxer (born 1966)
- Chris Masoeb. 1979WSNew Zealand rugby union player
- Mose Masoeb. 1989NZNew Zealand rugby league footballer
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●
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WS Samoa | This page presents a list of popular Samoan surnames along with their background and cultural significance, published by | — | — | #122 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name MaSoe?
- We estimate roughly 3.7 thousand people bear MaSoe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does MaSoe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.9 thousand people bear MaSoe in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled maso.
- How common is MaSoe compared with other names?
- In Samoa, MaSoe is the 41st most common surname of 144 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “MaSoe” — the 41st most common surname in Samoa. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.