Marcaida
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑɹkəɪdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marcaida is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Millares. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 176K
- UYUruguay1 in 113K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Spanish Millares. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos .
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marcaida 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Marcaida | 38 |
| ES Spain | 297 | 1 in 168K | 297 | Marcaida | 39 |
| AR Argentina | 258 | 1 in 176K | 258 | Marcaida | 27 |
| US United States | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 146 | Marcaida | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 558K | — | Marcaida | 5 |
| UY Uruguay | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | Marcaida | 8 |
| QA Qatar | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Marcaida | 7 |
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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
Marcaida 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 bik, a surname from Spanish, common in Camarines Sur and Albay
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, common in Quezon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ángel Ramírez de Cartagena y Marcaidab. 1901ESSpanish military personnel
- Félix Markaidab. 1931ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player (1931–2008)
- Maribel Arriortua Markaidab. 1950ESnot in their usual namescientist from Spain
- Doug Marcaidab. 1966PHAmerican edged weapons specialist
- Noel Marcaidab. 1980PHFilipino association football coach and former player
- Maria J MarcaidaGBresearcher
- Silvia Marcaida BengoecheaESPh.D. University of the Basque Country 2006
- Iker MarcaidaESresearcher
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 297 | #12,140 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 297 | #12,134 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 258 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 146 | #123,817 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 30 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Marcaida mean, and where does it come from?
- From Spanish Millares. Introduced through the Catálogo alfabético de apellidos . Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Marcaida?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹkəɪdə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Marcaida have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.9 thousand people named Marcaida in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marcaida.
- How common is the name Marcaida?
- In Spain, the national register counted 297 people named Marcaida, about 1 in 168 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marcaidaThe 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, “Marcaida”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.