Macintosh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Scottish Gaelic Mac An Toisich, 'son of the leader'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmækənˌtɔʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Macintosh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 80th most common surname.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 2.1Kas McIntosh(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.7Kas McIntosh
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 4.2Kas McIntosh
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 Macintosh 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 491 (measured from records)
- 1 in 691K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200,000 named McIntosh, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled McIntosh in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Mac-Intosh in NL Netherlands.
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)
from Scottish Gaelic Mac An Toisich, 'son of the leader'
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macintosh 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | McIntosh | 11 |
| US United States | #617 | 42,379as McIntosh | 1 in 7.8K | 42K | McIntosh | 491 |
| GB United Kingdom | #408 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | McIntosh | 247 |
| CA Canada | #305 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | McIntosh | 219 |
| AU Australia | #290 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | McIntosh | 197 |
| JM Jamaica | #80 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | McIntosh | 30 |
| NZ New Zealand | #278 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | McIntosh | 115 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 25 | 1 in 691K | 25 | Mac-Intosh | 24 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Macintosh is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Gaelic Mac an Toisich, ‘son of the chief’; a Clan Chattan name, first recorded as Farchard McToschy in 1382.
as a nameScottish Surnames
In English, Alternative form of mackintosh (“a raincoat”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, family name; tdmk for computers
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Polish, Macintosh-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, inform. model računala tvrtke Apple Computer Corp. čija su svojstva grafičko korisničko sučelje i vrlo jednostavna uporaba; prvo računalo te vrste proizvedeno je 1984.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Charles Macintoshb. 1766GBBritish chemist (1766–1843)
- Henry Macintoshb. 1892GBScottish athlete (1892-1918)
- Robert Reynolds Macintoshb. 1897NZNew Zealand academic (1897–1989)
- Don Macintoshb. 1931CACanadian basketball player (1931-1994)
- Laird Macintoshb. 1962USAmerican actor
- Kenneth Macintoshb. 1962GBScottish politician (born 1962)
- Tammy MacIntoshb. 1970AUAustralian actress
- Ewen MacIntoshb. 1973GBBritish actor (1973–2024)
- Zara MacIntoshb. 1995GBBritish actress, singer, and dancer
- Gavin MacIntoshb. 1999USAmerican actor and model
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #13,010 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #12,149 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 25 | #44,580 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Macintosh mean, and where does it come from?
- from Scottish Gaelic Mac An Toisich, 'son of the leader' Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Macintosh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmækənˌtɔʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Macintosh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 200 thousand people named McIntosh in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Macintosh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Macintosh is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 691 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Macintosh?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25 people named Macintosh in 2007, about 1 in 691 thousand residents.
- How common is Macintosh compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Macintosh is the 80th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Macintosh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macintoshThe 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, “Macintosh” — the 80th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.