# Mast (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mast/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 15,932 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,288 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 19,379 people |
| Change since 2000 | +24% (12,869 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch surname, from the noun mast (“mast (pole on a ship)”). * Also as a Dutch surname, from the noun mast (“fodder”). * As a German and Alemannic German surname, from the noun Mast (“fat”), itself related to the sense of "fodder" above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Mast in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 97% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.2% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 0.8% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Mast in the United States.

## People named Mast

- Brian Mast, American politician and United States Army veteran

## Similar surnames

Maust, Most, Masuda, Masood, Masoud, Machado, Michaud, Mosqueda, Macedo, McAtee, McQuade, McAdoo.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.