Mäurer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Mäurer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 50th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Maurer.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.5K
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.9K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 422 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Maurer in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from German Maurer.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mäurer is found
(measured from records)Mäurer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #142 | ≈29,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | listed | Maurer | 185 |
| US United States | — | 20,707 | 1 in 16K | 21K | Maurer | 422 |
| CH Switzerland | #50 | 6,876 | 1 in 1.2K | 6.9K | Maurer | 98 |
| AT Austria | #72 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Maurer | 110 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 409 | Mäurer | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Maurer | 91 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- German Mäurerb. 1811FRGerman writer (1811-1883)
- Gustav Mäurerb. 1880DEGerman musician and conductor
- Ulrich Mäurerb. 1951DEGerman politician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mäurer mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Maurer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mäurer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Mäurer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maurer. After it come United States, Switzerland, Austria and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mäurer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mäurer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mäurer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 20,707 people named Mäurer in 2010, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Mäurer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Mäurer is the 142nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4urerThe 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, “Mäurer” — the 142nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.