English: from a medieval personal name, a survival of Old
English Mæssa, which came to be taken as a pet form of
Matthew.English: possibly a metonymic occupational name
for a mace-bearer, from Old French masse ‘mace’.English: habitational name from Macé in Orne, France.French (Macé): variant of Massey; also a
vernacular form of the personal name Mathieu (see
Matthew).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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