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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Polish: Sea of bitterness
  2. Latin: Aromatic spice
  3. Old English: A medieval weapon used by a knight
  4. Old French: Matthew's estate

First name variations: Macie, Macey, Macy, Macey, Maceo, Maci, Macie, Macy

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: from a medieval personal name, a survival of Old English Mæssa, which came to be taken as a pet form of Matthew.
  2. English: possibly a metonymic occupational name for a mace-bearer, from Old French masse ‘mace’.
  3. English: habitational name from Macé in Orne, France.
  4. French (Macé): variant of Massey; also a vernacular form of the personal name Mathieu (see Matthew).