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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : masculinized form of Massa.
  • Catalan (Massó) : probably variant spelling of maçó ‘pickaxe’, nickname for someone who worked as stonecutter, from the diminutive of maça ‘mace’.

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