Mære

surname · Latin script

Mære is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 206Kas Maere

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mære itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Norway (measured from records)

136 people

Sources
5 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MaereLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Maere in US United States.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mære 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.

Where Mære is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway1361 in 40K136Mære4
BE Belgium57as Maere1 in 206K57—2
US United States——listedMaere5
EE Estonia——listed——

136 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mære is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Danish, indefinite plural of mær

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, boundary, border

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Mære
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—136#11,520

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Mære have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 136 people named Mære, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mære.
Where is Mære most common?
Mære is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mære?
In Norway, the national register counted 136 people named Mære, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.

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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, “Mære”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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