Where does my last name possible come from? its- MACZ?

Question

Where does my last name possible come from? its- MACZ?

Answer 1

If this is your ancestor from the 1920 census, his place of birth was Poland  (under other juridiction, but what we now know as Poland)

Name:   Wladislaw Macz

[Wladislaw Maez]

Home in 1920: Amsterdam Ward 7, Montgomery, New York

Age: 34 years

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1886

Birthplace: Poland

Relation to Head of House: Head

Spouse's Name: Kathern

Father's Birth Place: Poland

Mother's Birth Place: Poland

Marital Status: Married

Race: White

s*x: Male

Home owned: Rent

Year of Immigration: 1904

Able to read: Yes

Able to Write: Yes

Image: 526

Answer 2

www.familysearch.org has listings for it in Guatemala, Poland, Hungary,  Austria, Germany, and the US ( Illinois, and Ohio). Spelling variations include Mc Z (with another name. The one I noticed was MC Z BOYD), MAAS, MAASS, MAES,

MASSE , MASZ, MAASZ , MAESS, MASS, MAHS, MAS, & MAESSE.

     The earliest date I saw with one of the variations was this:

Agnes Maes - International Genealogical Index

Gender: Female Birth: 1559 Koeln Stadt, Rheinland, Preussen .

Maas is Dutch and North German: from a short form of Thomas.

Masse is English: variant of Mace.; Dutch: from Middle Dutch "masse" ‘"clog"’; ‘"cudgel"’, perhaps a metonymic occupational name for someone who wielded a club.

Answer 3

It's probably Czech.  Hence the similar lettering.  Could be Polish or Slovak, or possibly Hungarian.  Some place in that region.