Maceta
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Maceta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Spanish, recorded as flowerpot.
- PEPeru≈1 in 734K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 991K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 2.7M
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
- 18 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 734K (inferred from the name graph)
72 people
Highest-authority source
Peru, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
truncated conical iron hammer crossed by a short wooden handle
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Maceta is read(measured from records)
Maceta is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish65%
flowerpot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese22%
truncated conical iron hammer crossed by a short wooden handle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English8.3%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Maceta in English.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maceta 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 | 72 | 1 in 2.9M | 72 | Maceta | 18 |
| CO Colombia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 991K | — | Maceta | 16 |
| PE Peru | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 734K | — | Maceta | 14 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 39M | — | Maceta | 8 |
| PT Portugal | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Maceta | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
72 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Maceta is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, lump hammer, mallet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janick Macetab. 1994PEPeruvian model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Maceta come from?
- truncated conical iron hammer crossed by a short wooden handle Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What does the name Maceta mean?
- In Spanish, flowerpot
- In which country does Maceta have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 72 people named Maceta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maceta.
- How common is the name Maceta?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 72 people named Maceta, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Maceta?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macetaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Maceta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.