Machet
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/maʃa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Machet is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. see Matchett .
- FRFrance≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 18K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 388K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. see Matchett .
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Machet 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 153 | Machet | 195 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Machet | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 388K | — | Machet | 12 |
| IT Italy | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Machet | 2 |
| ES Spain | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Machet | 3 |
| AU Australia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 949K | — | Machet | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 21 | 1 in 10M | 21 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 15 | 1 in 781K | 15 | Machet | 6 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Machet 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 gmh, third-person singular present indicative of machen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, second-person plural subjunctive I of machen
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)
- Gérard Machetb. 1376FRbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
- Georges Machetb. 1867FRFrench politician (1867-1931)
- Charles Machetb. 1902FRFrench sculptor
- Joseph Machet de La Martinièreb. 1908FRFrench catholic priest and historian (1908-2003)
- Jacques Machetb. 1923FRFrench politician (1923-2015)
- Hervé de La Martinièreb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench publisher
- Laurent Machetb. 1960FRresearcher
- Monika BarylaPLnot in their usual nameresearcher
- Wieslaw Barylanot in their usual nameresearcher
- Martina Machetresearcher in particle physics
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 257 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 240 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 199 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 198 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 193 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 184 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 183 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 155 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 153 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Machet mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks. see Matchett . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Machet?
- A machine transcription gives /maʃa/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Machet have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Machet in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled machet.
- How common is the name Machet?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 21 people named Machet, about 1 in 10 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/machetThe 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, “Machet”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.