Macy

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A surname from Old French (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025

/ˈmeɪsi/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Macy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 5,203 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • IEIreland≈1 in 41Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • CACanada≈1 in 61K
  • USUnited States1 in 64K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

5,203 people, 2010

Record sources
352 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Macy

  • English:/ˈmeɪsi/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

A surname from Old French.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Macy, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where the surname Macy is found

(measured from records)

Macy 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.

Where Macy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5,2031 in 64K29KMacy352
GB United Kingdom≈840 est.≈1 in 83K10Macy107
CA Canada≈680 est.≈1 in 61K7Macy82
IN India≈370 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Macy14
MY Malaysia≈280 est.≈1 in 129K—Macy24
IE Ireland≈130 est.≈1 in 41K—Macy7
SG Singapore≈90 est.≈1 in 67K—Macy22

5,203 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Macy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, France, Nicaragua

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Mäcy, Mâçy

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Måçÿ

59 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Macy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, different forms of Massey

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • In English, variant of Massey.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Regalo de Dios

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)
1800185019001950Rowland Hussey Macy, b. 1822Bill Macy, b. 1922William H. Macy, b. 1950

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).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalDear Ms Macy,
InformalHi Macy,

Evidence

(measured from records)

54 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Macy?
In the etymology graph, Macey is a form of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Macy mean, and where does it come from?
A surname from Old French. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Macy?
In English /ˈmeɪsi/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Macy?
In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Macy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macy. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, India and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Macy?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,203 people named Macy in 2010, about 1 in 64 thousand residents.

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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, “Macy” — ranked 1265th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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