Macia

surname · Latin script

Meaning: variant of the personal name Maties

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/masja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Macia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 705K(measured from records)
  • MZMozambique≈1 in 4.3K
  • ESSpain1 in 7K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

7,183 people

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Mozambique, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

variant of the personal name Maties.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Macia 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 Macia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain—7,1831 in 7K7.2KMacia62
MZ Mozambique#260≈7,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Macia14
FR France—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 53K165—2
AR Argentina—1,1971 in 38K1.2K—1
US United States—4721 in 705K544Macia157
UY Uruguay—591 in 57K59——

7,183 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Macia is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Catalan surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Andorra

    Also written Macià, Maciã, Macía, Maciá

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Macía, Mácia, Maciá, Macià

  • Swahili surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, South Africa, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Macía, Maciá, Maciã

  • Hindi surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Maciá, Macià, Macía, Maciã, Mácia

54 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)

Macia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, feminine singular of macio

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vec, stain

    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)

19201940196019802000José Macia, b. 1935Marie-Pierre Macia, b. 1954Marina García-Macia, b. 1984

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)

FormalEstimado/a Macia,Dear Macia, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Macia,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Macia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—7.2K#765
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7.2K#765
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020544#42,858
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010472#45,347
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000434#46,240
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1961239—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1971198—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1981171—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195160—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—59—

Reference works 3

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

What does the name Macia mean, and where does it come from?
variant of the personal name Maties. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Macia?
A machine transcription gives /masja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Macia have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Macia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macia.
How common is the name Macia?
In Spain, the national register counted 7,183 people named Macia, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
How common is Macia compared with other names?
In Mozambique, Macia is the 260th most common surname of 2,021 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, “Macia” — the 260th most common surname in Mozambique. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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