Maslow

surname · Latin script

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

Maslow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 636K(measured from records)
  • JMJamaica≈1 in 114K
  • CACanada≈1 in 483K

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)

523 people, 2010

Sources
208 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maslow 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 Maslow is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5231 in 636K523Maslow208
DE Germany≈140 est.≈1 in 581K—Maslow37
CA Canada≈78 est.≈1 in 483K—Maslow25
GB United Kingdom≈71 est.≈1 in 924K—Maslow19
IT Italy≈69 est.≈1 in 898K—Maslow6
JM Jamaica≈25 est.≈1 in 114K—Maslow1
AT Austria≈17 est.≈1 in 519K—Maslow6

523 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maslow is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Argentina, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mäslöw, Mäslow, Maslõw, M̶a̶s̶l̶o̶w̶

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mas-Low

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maslow is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Possibly a shortened form of Polish and Jewish Maslowski.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1850190019502000Arkadi Maslow, b. 1891Will Maslow, b. 1907Abraham Maslow, b. 1909Victor Maslov, b. 1910Victor Pavlovich Maslov, b. 1930Steve Maslow, b. 1944Aleksey Maslov, b. 1953Aleksandr Maslov, b. 1969Viktor Maslov, b. 1976James Maslow, b. 1990

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 9 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 4

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

What does the name Maslow mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Maslow have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 523 people named Maslow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maslow.
How common is the name Maslow?
In the United States, the national register counted 523 people named Maslow in 2010, about 1 in 636 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, “Maslow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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