Macy

4,924 people in the United States were counted with the surname Macy in the 2020 census, making it the 6,605th most common in the country. That is about one person in 60,700.

By the numbers

People: 4,924
Rank: 6,605th
How common: 1 in 60,700
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

Norman baronial surname from places named Massy in France, derived from a Gallo-Roman personal name Maccius.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Macy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.0%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Macy

William H. Macy (born 1950)American actor
Bill Macy (1922–2019)American actor
Joanna Macy (1929–2025)American activist, author, and ecologist

People named Macy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Macy

Also a first name

Macy has been given to 33,304 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 2003. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.