Macaya

surname · Latin script

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 46K
  • ARArgentina1 in 74K

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.

Argentina (measured from records)

611 people

Sources
83 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Macaya 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 Macaya is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina6111 in 74K611—2
ES Spain5271 in 95K527Macaya23
US United States1721 in 1.9M173Macaya83
CR Costa Rica1101 in 46K110——
NL Netherlands271 in 640K27Macaya7

611 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800190020002100Marie Armand Pascal d'Avezac, b. 1800Luis María Macaya, b. 1946Pamela Macaya, b. 1970Inmaculada Jurío, b. 1970Camila Macaya, b. 1990Daniel Sancho, b. 2002

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 18 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Macaya
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—611—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—527#7,657
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—527#7,655
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020173#108,965
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010172#104,156
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000125#126,400
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—110#1,407
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200727#43,669
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Macaya have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 611 people named Macaya, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Macaya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Macaya is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 46 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Macaya?
In Argentina, the national register counted 611 people named Macaya, about 1 in 74 thousand 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, “Macaya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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