The masse Surname
masse Name Meaning and History
- English: variant of Mace 1.
- 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 1, or a patronymic from Mas.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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