Macé
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Macé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 15th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting to.
- FRFrance≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CUCuba≈1 in 11Kfew records
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 15Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 371 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
12,222 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mace in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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)- Middle Englishmace(measured from records)
- Old Frenchmace(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*mattia(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*mattjō“cutting tool“cutting tool, hoe”(measured from records)
From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Macé 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,222 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Mace | 371 |
| FR France | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | 1.4K | Macé | 163 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Mace | 187 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 2 | Mace | 107 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Mace | 9 |
| CU Cuba | #584 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mace | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Mace | 65 |
| BB Barbados | #15 | — | — | — | Mace | 2 |
12,222 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)Macé is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, first-person singular preterite indicative of mazar
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)- Jean Macéb. 1815FRFrench teacher, journalist and politician (1815–1894)
- Marguerite Macé-Montrougeb. 1836FRsinger and actress (1836-1898)
- Gabriel Macéb. 1906FRFrench politician (1906-1968)
- Gérard Macéb. 1946FRFrench poet and photographer
- Alain Macéb. 1946FRFrench actor
- François Macéb. 1947FRFrench academic (japanologist)
- Chantal Macéb. 1968FRFrench actress
- Sébastien Macéb. 1978FRFrench association football player
- Thibaut Macéb. 1986FRcyclist
- Damien Macéfilm director
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Macé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting to… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Macé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Macé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mace.
- How common is the name Macé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,222 people named Macé in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Macé compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Macé is the 15th most common surname of 11,500 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mac%C3%A9The 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, “Macé” — the 15th most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.