Macay
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hijo de Kay
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/makai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Macay is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.3M
- RERéunion≈1 in 15K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hijo de Kay
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macay 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Macay | 30 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Macay | 3 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 104 | Macay | 75 |
| CO Colombia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 724K | — | Macay | 8 |
| RE Réunion | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Macay | 1 |
| ES Spain | 48 | 1 in 1M | 48 | Macay | 19 |
| SV El Salvador | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Macay | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 48 | #45,814 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 48 | #45,681 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Macay mean, and where does it come from?
- Hijo de Kay Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Macay?
- A machine transcription gives /makai/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Macay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Macay in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macay.
- How common is the name Macay?
- In Spain, the national register counted 48 people named Macay, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macayThe 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, “Macay”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.