Marichal
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mariʧal/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marichal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uruguay than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Marichal.
- UYUruguay1 in 806(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 31K
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 59K
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.
- Uruguay (measured from records)
- Sources
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 806 (inferred from the name graph)
4,205 people
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Marichal.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marichal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | #148 | 4,205 | 1 in 806 | 4.2K | Marichal | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,606 | 1 in 31K | 1.6K | Marichal | 82 |
| BE Belgium | — | 831 | 1 in 14K | 831 | Marichal | 8 |
| FR France | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 63 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 541 | 1 in 615K | 612 | Marichal | 111 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Marichal | 20 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #670 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Marichal | 15 |
4,205 people counted by INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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: INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Marichal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Breton, maréchal ; forgeron
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Robert Marichalb. 1904FRFrench university teacher (1904-1999)
- Juan Marichalb. 1922MXSpanish historian
- Carlos Marichalb. 1923ESSpanish painter (1923-1969)
- Walter Marichalb. 1935UYassociation football player
- Juan Marichalb. 1937DObaseball player
- Julia Marichalb. 1944MXMexican actress (1944–2011)
- Carlos Marichalb. 1948USMexican historian
- Poli Marichalb. 1955USPuerto Rican illustrator, painter and filmmaker (born 1955)
- Thierry Marichalb. 1973BEroad bicycle racer
- Kalimba Marichalb. 1982MXMexican singer and actor
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.2K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.6K | #2,918 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.6K | #2,917 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 831 | #1,677 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 797 | #1,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 612 | #38,883 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 541 | #40,432 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 342 | #55,971 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 80 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 67 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- What does the name Marichal mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Marichal. Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Marichal?
- A machine transcription gives /mariʧal/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Marichal have the most bearers?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Marichal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marichal.
- Where is Marichal most common?
- Marichal is densest in Uruguay, where the national register counts about 1 in 806 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marichal?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 4,205 people named Marichal, about 1 in 806 residents.
- How common is Marichal compared with other names?
- In Uruguay, Marichal is the 148th most common surname of 57,630 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marichal?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marichalThe 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, “Marichal” — the 148th most common surname in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.