Names of Macao MO

DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names) records 志強 as the commonest given name in Macao and 陳 as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish Macao from the rest of the world are 李, 陈 and Park.

Written in Chinese, Portuguese.

Population
614K
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
698
ABuilt from 2 official registers, 698 name forms in our corpus, 17 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Macao are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Macao included.

How names work in Macao

6 naming traditions are in use in Macao, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Macao

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 2
DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names) — 10 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1志強1.5K—
2嘉敏1.2K—
3嘉欣1.1K—
4美玲967—
5志偉959—
6志明918—
7嘉豪876—
8麗娟876—
9偉明802—
10麗華798—

Where the two lists disagree

10 of DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names)'s top 10 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names)Across all records志強: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. 志強not ranked嘉敏: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. 嘉敏not ranked嘉欣: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. 嘉欣not ranked美玲: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. 美玲not ranked志偉: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. 志偉not ranked志明: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. 志明not ranked嘉豪: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. 嘉豪not ranked麗娟: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. 麗娟not ranked偉明: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. 偉明not ranked麗華: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. 麗華not ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names) on the left; every record we hold for Macao on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Macao

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Macao holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

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Sized by how much of the difference between Macao's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Names in Macao are written in Latin (71%), Hangul (16%) and Han (12%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Louisgiven name(measured from records)
李surname(measured from records)
Parksurname(measured from records)
Jeffersongiven name(measured from records)
陈surname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Macao, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Macao?
志強, according to DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names), with 1,472 bearers recorded.
What is the most common surname in Macao?
陳, according to DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names), with 74,612 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Macao?
Because they count different people. DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is 志強. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Kin. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Macao?
No — 6 are described on this page (Chinese, Cantonese and Hong Kong, Hokkien and Min, Wu and Shanghainese, Zhuang, Portuguese), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Macao”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/MO (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from DSEC Macau — Name Statistics (百家姓 surnames + common given names).