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Updated March 21, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Polish : Sea of bitterness

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Aromatic spice
  • Old English : A medieval weapon used by a knight
  • Old French : Matthew's estate

Boy name variations

How Popular Is The Name Mace

Family name origins & meanings

  • 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).

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