Macan
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: tomcat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Macan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 4.9K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 17K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Macan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
9,549 named McCune, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
tomcat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Macan is read(measured from records)
Macan is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English36%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Macan in English.
- Croatian26%
tomcat
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish12%
third-person plural present indicative of macar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Macan in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,549as McCune | 1 in 35K | 9.5K | Macan | 33 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Macan | 5 |
| HR Croatia | #743 | 859 | 1 in 4.9K | 859 | Macan | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 686 | 1 in 309K | 686 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 454as Makan | 1 in 2.9M | 454 | — | 2 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Macan | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 90 | 1 in 119K | 90 | — | — |
9,549 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mccune. 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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Macan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Malay, tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, tiger (Panthera tigris)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Javanese, romanization of ꦩꦕꦤ꧀
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Scottish Gaelic, diminutive of mac
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)
- Karel Emanuel Macanb. 1858CZCzech Esperantist and composer (1858–1925)
- A.V. Macanb. 1882CAIrish-Canadian lawyer, amateur golfer, and golf course architect
- Darko Macanb. 1966HRCroatian writer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 859 | #674 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 787 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 686 | #12,831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 227 | #87,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 195 | #88,461 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 180 | #100,302 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 90 | #18,316 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 90 | #8,105 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 34 | #555 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 31 | #60,761 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Macan mean, and where does it come from?
- tomcat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Macan have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.5 thousand people named McCune, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Macan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Macan is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 4.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Macan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 859 people named Macan in 2021, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Macan compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Macan is the 743rd most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macanThe 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, “Macan” — the 743rd most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.