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Surname Etymology and Meaning of MACE

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. English: from a medieval personal name, a survival of Old English Mæssa, which came to be taken as a pet form of Matthew.
2. English: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a mace-bearer, from Old French masse ‘mace’.
3. English: habitational name from Macé in Orne, France.
4. French (Macé): variant of Massey; also a vernacular form of the personal name Mathieu (see Matthew).

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)