Massa

At the 2020 census, 5,308 Americans bore the surname Massa — 6,187th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,308
Rank: 6,187th
How common: 1 in 56,300
Per 100,000: 1.8

Where the name comes from

Both borrowed from Italian Massa, from Latin Māssa, from massa (“mass, bulk”). Compare Massey.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Massa described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 81.7%
Hispanic or Latino 14.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Massa

Felipe Massa (born 1981)Brazilian race car driver
Sergio Massa (born 1972)Argentine politician and lawyer
Davide Massa (born 1981)Italian association football referee
Isaac Massa (1586–1643)Dutch grain trader, traveller and diplomat
Eric Massa (born 1959)American politician

People named Massa with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Massa

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.