Entry № 6146 · Spanish origin

Macarena Macarena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-kah-REH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Spanish
Meaning
"The Marian devotion of Seville"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Spanish)

A name that means "the marian devotion of seville".

Macarena refers to the Virgin of Macarena — the most beloved Marian devotion of Seville, Spain.

The Sevillian Virgin. The 1996 dance hit.

The name in its native script.

Macarena
Transliteration
Macarena
Pronunciation
/ ˌmæk.əˈreɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Macarena stands.

Macarena does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Macarenas before her.

Real people
Macarena Gómez
Spanish actress.
born 1978
In fiction
Macarena
Heroine of Los del Río's song.
1993 song

Names connected to Macarena.

The number behind Macarena.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Macarena reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.