Macel
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/məkəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Macel is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: klaonica, komarda.
- ATAustria≈1 in 361K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 438K
- BRBrazil1 in 601K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 361K (inferred from the name graph)
352 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)klaonica, komarda
Cited for this meaning 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Macel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 352 | 1 in 601K | 481 | Macel | 33 |
| US United States | 251 | 1 in 1.3M | 211 | Macel | 18 |
| PH Philippines | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 438K | — | Macel | 9 |
| PL Poland | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 13 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | 77 | — | — |
| CL Chile | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 610K | 1 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 361K | 4 | — | — |
352 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)Macel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nci, if only, at least
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, slaughterhouse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, klaonica, komarda
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)- Christine Macelb. 1969FRFrench curator
- Noël Macelb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Tereza Macelb. 1974CZCzech-Canadian triathlete
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 501 | #17,068 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 77 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 72 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 51 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,411 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Is Macel a male or female name?
- Macel is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Macel mean, and where does it come from?
- klaonica, komarda Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Macel?
- A machine transcription gives /məkəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Macel have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 352 people named Macel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macel.
- How common is the name Macel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 352 people named Macel in 2022, about 1 in 601 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Macel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macelThe 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, “Macel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.