Maze Family History
Maze Name Meaning
English (Kent and London): variant of Mays . Irish (Ulster): of uncertain origin. When it is not the English name in 1 above it may be a variant of Maye . Breton (Mazé; Finistère): from the personal name Mazé a shortened form of Mazéo Breton form of Matthew . French (Mazé): habitational name from a place in Maine-et-Loire named in Latin as Masiacum ‘estate of Masius’ from the personal name Masius + the locative suffix -acum. French (Mazé): from a shortened pet form of the personal name Thomas . French: topographic name from the feminine form of mas ‘farmhouse house in the country’ (see Mas ) or a habitational name from a place called La Maze (Ardèche) or Les Maze (Hérault) named with the same word.7: Slovenian: probably from a shortened vernacular short form of the personal name Tomaž (see Thomas ). Alternatively perhaps a nickname from a derivative of mazati ‘to grease’ also ‘to dirty’.8: Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): acronymic surname from the Hebrew expression mi zera Aharon ha-Cohen ‘of the seed of Aaron the priest’ a designation of a Jew descending according to the tradition from the Biblical Aaron the brother of Moses (compare Cohen ).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
