Maů

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maů is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a dandy or an affluent person, from Middle Low German mouwe, Dutch mouw, ‘sleeve’, referring to a wide sleeve of expensive, ornamented fabric.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 463K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 796K
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.4M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

719 people, 2020

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 463K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

12 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Maü in CO Colombia.

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)

nickname for a dandy or an affluent person, from Middle Low German mouwe, Dutch mouw, ‘sleeve’, referring to a wide sleeve of expensive, ornamented fabric.

Sources 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maů 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 Maů is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7191 in 463K3.2K—78
FI Finland71 in 796K35——
CO Colombia≈3 est.≈1 in 19M—Maü19
CL Chile≈3 est.≈1 in 7M1—26
BR Brazil≈2 est.≈1 in 106M165—1
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——

719 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); MVČR — living population register 2017; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Maů under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maů mean, and where does it come from?
nickname for a dandy or an affluent person, from Middle Low German mouwe, Dutch mouw, ‘sleeve’, referring to a wide sleeve of expensive, ornamented fabric. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese.
Is Maů a male or female name?
Maů is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Maů have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 719 people named Maů, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Maů most common?
Maů is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 463 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Maů?
In the United States, the national register counted 719 people named Maů in 2020, about 1 in 463 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, “Maů”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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