Meaning and background
The story behind Mase
Mase has several documented surname histories, which makes a single “Mase means…” claim unsafe. An English line is treated as a variant of Mace, while a Japanese surname written 間瀬 has a separate reading and character analysis. An Ashkenazic surname line also appears in reference works. Those histories need not be related. For a dog, the unadorned spelling is attractive precisely because it is brief, though pronunciation may depend on context.
- Origin
- Attested as an English surname variant of Mace, a Japanese surname written 間瀬, and an Ashkenazic surname variant of Maze. Source
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About Mase
Recorded as a dog’s name
Mase appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/meɪz/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
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/meɪz/ · primary stress on syllable 1M EY1 Z
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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