Submitted Name
Type Surname (from occupation)
Other Forms FormsMassé, Mace, Maas
[Meaning & History
English: variant of Mace
French (Picardy): metonymic occupational name from masse ‘mace’, ‘hammer’.
French: habitational name from places called Masse (Allier and Cô-d’Or), or La Masse (Eure, Lot, Puy-de-Dôme, Saône-et-Loire).
French (Massé): habitational name from a place called Massé in Maine-et-Loire, so named from Gallo-Roman Macciacum (from the personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch masse ‘clog’; ‘cudgel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who wielded a club.
Dutch: possibly a variant of Maas, or a patronymic from Mas.
French (Picardy): metonymic occupational name from masse ‘mace’, ‘hammer’.
French: habitational name from places called Masse (Allier and Cô-d’Or), or La Masse (Eure, Lot, Puy-de-Dôme, Saône-et-Loire).
French (Massé): habitational name from a place called Massé in Maine-et-Loire, so named from Gallo-Roman Macciacum (from the personal name Maccius + the locative suffix -acum).
Dutch: from Middle Dutch masse ‘clog’; ‘cudgel’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who wielded a club.
Dutch: possibly a variant of Maas, or a patronymic from Mas.