Ma'U
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Ma'U is a surname 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.
- USUnited States1 in 109K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 92Kas Maue
- DKDenmark1 in 25K
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 Ma'U 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
3,042 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maue in US United States, DE Germany, CD Congo - Kinshasa and 1 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)
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
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ma'U 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,042 | 1 in 109K | 3.2K | Maue | 287 |
| IN India | 2,422 | 1 in 548K | 2.4K | — | 28 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Maue | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 92K | listed | Maue | 119 |
| DK Denmark | 236 | 1 in 25K | 236 | — | 1 |
| LR Liberia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 246K | — | Maue | 1 |
3,042 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mau. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Ma'U 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 alu, to fear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rap, take
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ma'U 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.
- In which country does Ma'U have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Ma'U, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maue.
- Where is Ma'U most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ma'U is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ma'U?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,042 people named Ma'U in 2010, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ma'uThe 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, “Ma'U”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.