Masse Family History
Masse Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Masse Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Masse families
 47 - 91  16 - 46 |
 1 - 15  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Masse families
|
8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
| Sorry, we couldn't find geographic distribution information for the Masse last name |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Masse Family Origin
Masse Immigration Information
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Masse Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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