A geometric understanding of the origin of mass hierarchy among the standard model fermions has been addressed in a multiple warped spacetime. We show that the requirement of 1016 order warping between the Planck and the visible branes without creating any significant hierarchy among the moduli results in splitting of fermion masses in the standard model. Values of the various parameters of the extra dimensional model and the corresponding fermion masses are determined. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd.