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maze Name Meaning and History
- French (Mazé): habitational name from a place in Maine-et-Loire, named in Latin as Masiacum ‘estate of Masius’, from the personal name Masius + the locative suffix -acum.
- French (Forez): topographic name from a feminine form of mas ‘farmhouse’, ‘house in the country’ (see Mas 2), or a habitational name from a place called La Maze (Ardèche) or Les Maze (Hérault), named with the same word.
- French (Mazé): from a pet form of Thomas.
- Northern Irish: of uncertain origin; possibly a variant of May.
- Slovenian: possibly from a short form of the personal name Tomaž or its pet form Tomaže(j) (see Thomas).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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