Baby name
FADING
🇦🇷 🇪🇸 Macarena
/mah · kah · REH · nah/
Meaning
“Sacred place”
From the Spanish district of Seville and its Virgin of Macarena devotion; internationally familiar as the title of a 1993 Los Del Rio hit, which both spread and stained it.
Nicknames
maca
Vibe
strongwarmelegant
How it ages.
Permanently stamped by the 1990s song in non-Spanish contexts; ages better within Spain.
The cultural moment.
Common in Spain and Argentina before the song; usage dropped sharply in the late 1990s internationally.