Mácena
given name · Latin script
Mácena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 115K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 337K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
37,395 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Macena in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mácena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #409 | 37,395 | 1 in 5.7K | 37K | Macena | 116 |
| AR Argentina | — | 397 | 1 in 115K | 397 | Macena | 25 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | listed | Macena | 41 |
| ES Spain | — | 36 | 1 in 1.4M | 36 | Macena | 15 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 337K | — | Macena | 12 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 610K | — | Macena | 8 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 564K | — | Macena | 4 |
37,395 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mácena a male or female name?
- Mácena is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mácena have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Mácena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macena.
- Where is Mácena most common?
- Mácena is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mácena?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 37,395 people named Mácena, about 1 in 5.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Mácena compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Mácena is the 409th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mácena?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1cenaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mácena” — the 409th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.