Máchado
surname · Latin script
Máchado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,268,583 people, counted by IBGE, which ranks it 42nd. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin marculātus, from marculus (“hammer”). Máchado is also written Мачадо in Cyrillic.
- UYUruguay1 in 78(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 167
- PTPortugal≈1 in 210
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 Máchado 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #365 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
1,268,583 people
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Máchado in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Machado in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, VE Venezuela 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)- Latinmarculātus(measured from records)
- Latin rootmarculus“hammer”(measured from records)
Inherited from Latin marculātus, from marculus (“hammer”).
Cited for this meaning 6
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Máchado is found
(measured from records)Máchado 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 | #31 | 1,268,583 | 1 in 167 | 1.3M | Machado | 261 |
| PT Portugal | #29 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 212 | — | Machado | 195 |
| VE Venezuela | #113 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 597 | 515 | Machado | 99 |
| UY Uruguay | #14 | 43,552 | 1 in 78 | 44K | Machado | 86 |
| AR Argentina | #210 | 33,660 | 1 in 1.4K | 34K | Machado | 117 |
| HN Honduras | #157 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Machado | 33 |
1,268,583 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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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 Máchado mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin marculātus, from marculus (“hammer”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Máchado?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Máchado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machado. After it come Portugal, Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Máchado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Máchado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 78 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Máchado?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,268,583 people named Máchado, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Máchado compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Máchado is the 31st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1chadoThe 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, “Máchado” — ranked 42nd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.