Maĥer
surname · Latin script
Maĥer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meachair (“descendant of Meachar”), a personal name meaning "fine", "majestic".
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.7K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Maĥer 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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 444 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈95,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Maher in US United States, EG Egypt, AU Australia and 1 more, Mehra in IN India, Mera in EC Ecuador and Meher in PK Pakistan.
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)Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meachair (“descendant of Meachar”), a personal name meaning "fine", "majestic".
Cited for this meaning 8
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maĥer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #30 | ≈95,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Maher | 139 |
| PK Pakistan | #409 | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Meher | 48 |
| IN India | #321 | 64,693as Meher | 1 in 20K | 65K | Mehra | 238 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 52,343as Mera | 1 in 323 | 52K | Mera | 4 |
| US United States | — | 23,222 | 1 in 14K | 23K | Maher | 444 |
| AU Australia | #282 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | 2 | Maher | 190 |
| IE Ireland | #110 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Maher | 143 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maĥer mean, and where does it come from?
- Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Meachair (“descendant of Meachar”), a personal name meaning "fine", "majestic". Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Maĥer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 95 thousand people named Maĥer in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maher.
- How common is the name Maĥer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,222 people named Maĥer in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Maĥer compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Maĥer is the 30th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma%C4%A5erThe 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, “Maĥer” — the 30th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.