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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : nickname for a forceful person or metonymic occupational name for someone who used a mallet, Spanish mazo (a byform of Maza 1).
  • Spanish (from Galician and Asturian-Leonese) : habitational name from any of a number of places so named in Galicia, Asturies, and Lleón.
  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : variant of Mase.

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