Maçe

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Maçe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting to.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 27K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 103K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 240K

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.

United States (measured from records)

12,222 people, 2010

Sources
24 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mace in US United States, TR Türkiye.

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)

Derivation of Maçe: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Maçe
  1. Middle Englishmace(measured from records)
  2. Old Frenchmace(measured from records)
  3. Vulgar Latin*mattia(measured from records)
  4. Proto-West Germanic*mattjō“cutting tool“cutting tool, hoe”(measured from records)

From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).

Sources 5

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maçe 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.

Where Maçe is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States12,2221 in 27K12KMace24
BR Brazil861 in 2.5M86——
ES Spain571 in 877K57——
TR Türkiye≈46 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Mace12
CZ Czechia371 in 289K37——
CH Switzerland351 in 240K35—1
UY Uruguay331 in 103K33——
SE Sweden271 in 378K27—1

12,222 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maçe is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Mace, Máče

  • Albanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, United States

    Also written Mace, Macë, Maçë

  • English surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia

    Languages: English, French, Spanish

    Also written Mace, Macé, Mâcé, Macê, Macè

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Maçe under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maçe mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting to… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 3 other sources.
In which country does Maçe have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Maçe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mace.
Where is Maçe most common?
Maçe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 27 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Maçe?
In the United States, the national register counted 12,222 people named Maçe in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.

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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, “Maçe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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