Macìas
surname · Latin script
Macìas 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. Recorded meaning: from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew).
- 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)
- #795 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 426 (measured from records)
- 1 in 147 (inferred from the name graph)
115,302 people, 2024
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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(measured from records)
from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macìas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #14 | 115,302 | 1 in 147 | 115K | Macias | 89 |
| US United States | #633 | 62,227 | 1 in 5.3K | 62K | Macias | 426 |
| ES Spain | #122 | 35,103 | 1 in 1.4K | 35K | Macias | 185 |
| CO Colombia | #327 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 15 | Macias | 122 |
| AR Argentina | #567 | 7,891 | 1 in 5.8K | 7.9K | Macias | 75 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | #110 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 800 | — | Macias | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1,025 | 1 in 3.3K | 1K | — | 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Macìas mean, and where does it come from?
- from a variant of the personal name Mati'as (see Matthew). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Macìas have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 115 thousand people named Macìas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macias.
- Where is Macìas most common?
- Macìas is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 147 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Macìas?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 115,302 people named Macìas in 2024, about 1 in 147 residents.
- How common is Macìas compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Macìas is the 14th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mac%C3%ACasThe 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, “Macìas” — the 14th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.