Macale
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Macale is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 870Kfew records
- BRBrazil1 in 4.7M
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Réunion, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Macale is found
(measured from records)Macale 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 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Macale | 46 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 397K | — | Macale | 3 |
| IN India | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 7.6M | 1 | — | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 375K | listed | Macale | 5 |
| US United States | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Macale | 60 |
| BR Brazil | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 45 | Macale | 13 |
| AU Australia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 866K | — | Macale | 21 |
| RE Réunion | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Macale | 1 |
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); the xinhua-italian-manual register; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maurizio Macaleb. 1951ITItalian poet, essayist and translator (born 1951)
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Macale?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Macale in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macale. After it come Indonesia, India, Italy and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Macale?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 45 people named Macale, about 1 in 4.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Macale?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macaleThe 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, “Macale”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.