Macías

surname · Latin script

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

/maθias/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Macías is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 147(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 1.4K
  • COColombia≈1 in 2.3K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

115,302 people, 2024

#795 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
426 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MacíasLatin(measured from records)
МасиасCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜασιαςGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Macias in US United States, EC Ecuador, ES Spain and 3 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Macías 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 Macías is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#14115,3021 in 147115KMacias89
US United States#63362,2271 in 5.3K62KMacias426
ES Spain#12235,1031 in 1.4K35KMacias185
CO Colombia#327≈22,000 est.≈1 in 2.3K15Macias122
AR Argentina#5677,8911 in 5.8K7.9KMacias75
TT Trinidad & Tobago#110≈1,500 est.≈1 in 800—Macias3
UY Uruguay—1,0251 in 3.3K1K—28

115,302 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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; INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Macías is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Maćias, Maciás, Macias, Macǐas, Macia-S

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Ecuador, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Macias

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Ecuador, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Macias, Mâčïâš

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Macias

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Ecuador, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Macias

15 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)

19201940196019802000Francisco Macías Nguema Biyoko, b. 1924Carlos Fuentes, b. 1928Rosario Green, b. 1941Bianca Jagger, b. 1945Carlos Manuel Urzúa Macías, b. 1955Juan José Zúñiga, b. 1968Juana Macías, b. 1971Israel Castro, b. 1980Raquel del Rosario, b. 1982Daniela Macías, b. 1997

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)

FormalEstimado/a Macías,Dear Macías, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Macías,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Macías
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—1#115

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

How do you pronounce Macías?
A machine transcription gives /maθias/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Macías have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 115 thousand people named Macías, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macias.
Where is Macías most common?
Macías is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
How common is the name Macías?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 115,302 people named Macías in 2024, about 1 in 147 residents.
How common is Macías compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Macías is the 14th most common surname of 34,511 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, “Macías” — the 14th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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