Machado
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: axe (tool and weapon consisting of a heavy blade on the end of a shaft)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɐt͡ʃadu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Machado is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 31st most common surname.
- UYUruguay1 in 78(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 167
- PTPortugal≈1 in 287
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- #365 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 384 (measured from records)
- 1 in 78 (inferred from the name graph)
1,268,583 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
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)
from Spanish and Portuguese machado ‘hatchet’ (a derivative of Macho 2), probably a nickname, but possibly also a habitational name, as this word is also a common element of place names.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Machado is read(measured from records)
Machado 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.
- Portuguese73%
axe (tool and weapon consisting of a heavy blade on the end of a shaft)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish18%
short wood-axe
as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Machado 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #31 | 1,268,583 | 1 in 167 | 1.3M | Machado | 261 |
| VE Venezuela | #113 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 599 | 515 | Machado | 99 |
| UY Uruguay | #14 | 43,552 | 1 in 78 | 44K | Machado | 86 |
| PT Portugal | #29 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 287 | — | Machado | 195 |
| AR Argentina | #210 | 33,660 | 1 in 1.4K | 34K | Machado | 117 |
| HN Honduras | #157 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Machado | 33 |
1,268,583 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Machado is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Spanish and Portuguese machado ‘hatchet’ (a derivative of Macho 2), probably a nickname, but possibly also a habitational name, as this word is also a common element of place names.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
vende machados; axes seller
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In English, Antonio, Manuel, Spanish poets
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Bernardino Luis, Portuguese
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Machado de Assisb. 1839BRBrazilian writer (1839–1908)
- Bernardino Machadob. 1851PTPortuguese president (1851-1944)
- Antonio Machadob. 1875ESSpanish poet and essayist (1875–1939)
- Marlene Forteb. 1961CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress
- María Corina Machadob. 1967VEVenezuelan politician, activist and Nobel laureate (born 1967)
- Justina Machadob. 1972USAmerican actress
- Alicia Machadob. 1976VEactress, TV show host, singer, Miss Universe 1996 and Miss Venezuela 1995
- Rodrigob. 1991BRnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Anittab. 1993BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian singer, songwriter, dancer and actress
- Francisco Trincãob. 1999PTnot in their usual namePortuguese footballer (born 1999)
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)
Attested in 52 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3M | #42 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 44K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 34K | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Machado come from?
- from Spanish and Portuguese machado ‘hatchet’ (a derivative of Macho 2), probably a nickname, but possibly also a habitational name, as this word is also a common element of place names. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Machado?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐt͡ʃadu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Machado mean?
- In Portuguese, axe (tool and weapon consisting of a heavy blade on the end of a shaft)
- In which country does Machado have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Machado, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machado.
- Where is Machado most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Machado is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 78 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Machado?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,268,583 people named Machado, about 1 in 167 residents.
- How common is Machado compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Machado is the 31st most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Machado?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/machadoThe 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, “Machado” — the 31st most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.