Mast

Mast is the 1,936th most common surname in the United States, shared by 18,168 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 16,500.

By the numbers

People: 18,168
Rank: 1,936th
How common: 1 in 16,500
Per 100,000: 6.1

Where the name comes from

As a Dutch surname, from the noun mast (“mast (pole on a ship)”).

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 95.9%
Hispanic or Latino 1.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Mast

Brian Mast (born 1980)American politician and United States Army veteran
Katja Mast (born 1971)German politician

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

Surnames like Mast

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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.