Macis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mace (spice)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈma.sis/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Macis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- NINicaragua≈1 in 23Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 62Kfew records
- CRCosta Rica1 in 212K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈950 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mace (spice)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Macis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Macis | 25 |
| NI Nicaragua | #654 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Macis | 7 |
| US United States | — | 216 | 1 in 1.5M | 233 | Macis | 105 |
| FR France | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 8 | Macis | 67 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Macis | 37 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 24 | 1 in 212K | 24 | Macis | 7 |
| SV El Salvador | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Macis | 6 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Macis | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Macis 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 Hungarian, bearlike, teddy bear-like, sturdy, burly (chiefly as an attribute of physique)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, mace (spice made from nutmeg kernel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Muļķīgs, truls cilvēks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Francesco Macisb. 1936ITItalian politician and mayor
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 233 | #86,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 216 | #86,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 147 | #111,119 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 24 | #3,264 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Macis mean, and where does it come from?
- mace (spice) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Macis?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ˈma.sis/ (Wiktionary); in Italian /ˈma.t͡ʃis/ (Wiktionary); in French /ma.si/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Macis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 950 people named Macis in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macis.
- How common is the name Macis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 216 people named Macis in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Macis compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Macis is the 654th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macisThe 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, “Macis” — the 654th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.