Maze Family History

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.

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’.

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).