Machael
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries
/mat͡ʃael/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Machael is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Barbados it is the 92nd most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 188K(measured from records)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 250Kfew records
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 280Kfew 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Barbados, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Machael 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Machael | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 320 | 1 in 662K | 373 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Machael | 10 |
| US United States | — | 268 | 1 in 1.2M | 184 | Machael | 129 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Machael | 7 |
| BB Barbados | #92 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Machael | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 4 | 1 in 188K | 4 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Machael?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /mat͡ʃael/; in Swahili /matʃɑɛl/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Machael a male or female name?
- Machael is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Machael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 950 people named Machael in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machael.
- How common is the name Machael?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 320 people named Machael in 2022, about 1 in 662 thousand residents.
- How common is Machael compared with other names?
- In Barbados, Machael is the 92nd most common given name of 1,425 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Machael?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/machaelThe 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, “Machael” — the 92nd most common given name in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.