Machia
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Machia is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Italian Macchia.
- USUnited States1 in 889K(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 79K
- IEIreland≈1 in 222K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Vulgar Latin*macla(inferred from the name graph)via Macchia
- Latinmacula(inferred from the name graph)via Macchia
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Italian Macchia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Machia 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Machia | 5 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Machia | 1 |
| US United States | 374 | 1 in 889K | 460 | Machia | 85 |
| BR Brazil | 177 | 1 in 1.2M | 177 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Machia | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Machia | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Machia | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)
Machia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, to put make up on
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MACHIÁ, machiez, vb. I. Tranz. și refl. A (se) farda (minuțios, cu artă); a(-și) face machiajul (pentru scenă). V. grima. [Pr.: -chi-a].
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 460 | #49,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 459 | #44,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 374 | #54,990 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 177 | #40,590 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Machia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Italian Macchia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Machia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 738 people named Machia in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machia.
- How common is the name Machia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 374 people named Machia in 2010, about 1 in 889 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/machiaThe 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, “Machia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.