Maček

surname · Latin script

Meaning: genitive plural of mačka

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ma˦˨tʂek/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 4.5K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.5K
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.5K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

3,048 people

Sources
47 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Macek in US United States.

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)

genitive plural of mačka

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maček 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 Maček is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—3,0481 in 3.5K3K——
US United States—1,5921 in 209K1.6KMacek47
SI Slovenia#2021,3981 in 1.5K1.4KMaček18
PL Poland—1,0211 in 37K517——
HR Croatia#5109431 in 4.5K943Maček35
SK Slovakia—7351 in 7.4K735——

3,048 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

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

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Máček, Mac̆ek, Macek, Maĉek, Mácek

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Macek

  • Czech surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Macek, Maćek, Máček

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Мацек, Macek, Maciek, Maçek, Mácek

16 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Gregor Maček, b. 1664Vladko Maček, b. 1879Ivan Maček, b. 1908Ivo Maček, b. 1914Srečo Maček, b. 1948Marjeta Maček, b. 1966Boštjan Maček, b. 1972Jure Maček, b. 1974Matej Maček, b. 1982

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)

FormalPoštovani Maček,Dear Maček, (English)
InformalPoštovani Maček,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Maček
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.4K#84
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021943#602
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021865—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—273#6,063
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)1995206—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20268—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—8#153,926
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#182,838

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Maček mean, and where does it come from?
genitive plural of mačka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Maček?
A machine transcription gives /ma˦˨tʂek/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Maček have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Maček, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Maček most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maček is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.5 thousand people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maček?
In Czechia, the national register counted 3,048 people named Maček, about 1 in 3.5 thousand residents.
How common is Maček compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Maček is the 202nd most common surname of 13,062 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, “Maček” — the 202nd most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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