Mača

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Croatian: genitive singular of mač

Mača is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 275K
  • CZCzechia1 in 412K

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.

United States (measured from records)

273 people, 2010

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Latvian

Prostitūta

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mača is read(measured from records)

Mača is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Latvian59%

    Prostitūta

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • Croatian25%

    genitive singular of mač

    as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mača 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 Mača is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2731 in 1.2M273—1
BR Brazil2471 in 857K247——
PL Poland1391 in 275K70——
LV Latvia≈47 est.≈1 in 40K—Mača8
ES Spain381 in 1.3M38——
CZ Czechia261 in 412K26——
BE Belgium261 in 451K26——
NO Norway81 in 683K8——

273 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Mača is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian

    Also written Maca, Macha, Maća, Мача, Маца

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Maca, Máca, Maça, Màca, Macã

  • Czech surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Máca, Maca, Macá, Máča, Macã

  • Hungarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Maca, Maçã, Macá, Máca, Macã

  • Kazakh surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru

    Also written Maca

  • Ukrainian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Маца, Matsa, Maca, Matşa, Матса

2 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)

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Mača mean?
In Croatian, genitive singular of mač
In which country does Mača have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 273 people named Mača, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Mača?
In the United States, the national register counted 273 people named Mača in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Mača”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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