Macêdo
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Macêdo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country. In Portugal it is the 93rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: topographic name from macedo ‘apple grove’, a derivative of maga ‘apple’.
- UYUruguay1 in 760(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 944
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.6K
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.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 295 (measured from records)
- 1 in 760 (inferred from the name graph)
≈20,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Macedo in PE Peru, US United States, PT Portugal 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)
topographic name from macedo ‘apple grove’, a derivative of maga ‘apple’.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macêdo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | #219 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Macedo | 74 |
| PT Portugal | #93 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 944 | — | Macedo | 156 |
| US United States | — | 8,433 | 1 in 39K | 8.4K | Macedo | 295 |
| UY Uruguay | #145 | 4,459 | 1 in 760 | 4.5K | Macedo | 42 |
| AO Angola | #144 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | 2 | Macedo | 27 |
| HN Honduras | #402 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Macedo | 20 |
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; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Macêdo mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from macedo ‘apple grove’, a derivative of maga ‘apple’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- In which country does Macêdo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Macêdo in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macedo.
- Where is Macêdo most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Macêdo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 760 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Macêdo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,433 people named Macêdo in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Macêdo compared with other names?
- In Peru, Macêdo is the 219th most common surname of 173,371 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Macêdo” — the 219th most common surname in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.