Mâc
surname · Latin script
Mâc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle Irish mac, from Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos. Cognates include Irish mac and Manx mac.
- IEIreland≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 11K
- ARArgentina1 in 12K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 421 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
3,900 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mac in CA Canada, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia 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)- Middle Irishmac(measured from records)
- Old Irishmacc(measured from records)
- Primitive Irishᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔmaqqi(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*makkʷos(measured from records)
From Middle Irish mac, from Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos. Cognates include Irish mac and Manx mac.
Cited for this meaning 5
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Scottish Surnames
- Wiktionary
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 38 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mâc 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 3,900 | 1 in 12K | 3.9K | — | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 8 | Mac | 184 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Mac | 70 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Mac | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 34 | Mac | 187 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 3 | Mac | 144 |
| IE Ireland | #311 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Mac | 99 |
3,900 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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 Mâc mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle Irish mac, from Old Irish macc, from Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos. Cognates include Irish mac and Manx mac. Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Mâc have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Mâc, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mâc?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 3,900 people named Mâc, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Mâc compared with other names?
- In Ireland, Mâc is the 311th most common surname of 73,729 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mâc” — the 311th most common surname in Ireland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.