Mácias
surname · Latin script
Mácias is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 14th most common surname. Recorded meaning: from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew).
- ECEcuador1 in 147(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 710
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 860few records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mácias itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- #795 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Macias in MX Mexico, US United States, EC Ecuador and 3 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
(measured from records)from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mácias 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #101 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 710 | 3.2K | Macias | 228 |
| EC Ecuador | #14 | 115,302 | 1 in 147 | 115K | Macias | 89 |
| US United States | #633 | 62,227 | 1 in 5.3K | 62K | Macias | 426 |
| ES Spain | #122 | 35,103 | 1 in 1.4K | 35K | Macias | 185 |
| CO Colombia | #327 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 15 | Macias | 122 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #110 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 860 | — | Macias | 3 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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
- What does the name Mácias mean, and where does it come from?
- from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Mácias have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 184 thousand people named Mácias in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macias.
- Where is Mácias most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mácias is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 147 people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mácias?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 115,302 people named Mácias in 2024, about 1 in 147 residents.
- How common is Mácias compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Mácias is the 101st most common surname of 206,803 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1ciasThe 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, “Mácias” — the 101st most common surname in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.