Mather
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mower of grass or hay, from Old English
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmæðɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mather is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 44K
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 Mather 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 377 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
14,239 named Mathur
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mathur in IN India, AE United Arab Emirates, ID Indonesia 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)
mower of grass or hay, from Old English.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mather 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #818 | 14,239as Mathur | 1 in 93K | 14K | Mathur | 250 |
| US United States | — | 7,621 | 1 in 44K | 7.6K | Mather | 377 |
| GB United Kingdom | #876 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Mather | 224 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Mathur | 26 |
| AO Angola | #796 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Mathur | 2 |
| AU Australia | #952 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mather | 153 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #729 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Mathur | 62 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Mather | 74 |
14,239 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)
Mather is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from OE 'mower, reaper'; first attested Alan le Mathere 1249 AssW
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Archaic spelling of madder (“plant”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Richard, Increase, Cotton. US
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, clergymen; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper 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)
- Increase Matherb. 1639USPuritan minister, academic, activist (1639-1723)
- Cotton Matherb. 1663USAmerican religious minister and scientific writer (1663–1728)
- John Matherb. 1848AUAustralian artist (1848-1916)
- Stephen Tyng Matherb. 1867USAmerican businessman and conservationist (1867–1930)
- Frank Jewett Matherb. 1868USAmerican journalist and museum director (1868-1953)
- Aubrey Matherb. 1885GBEnglish actor (1885–1958)
- Jack Matherb. 1907USactor (1907–1966)
- Berkely Matherb. 1909GBBritish writer (1909–1996)
- John Matherb. 1942USAmerican mathematician (1942–2017)
- John C. Matherb. 1946USAmerican astrophysicist and cosmologist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.6K | #4,652 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,470 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 16 | #10,611 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #99,711 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mather mean, and where does it come from?
- mower of grass or hay, from Old English. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Mather?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæðɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mather have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Mathur, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mather?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,621 people named Mather in 2010, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Mather compared with other names?
- In India, Mather is the 818th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/matherThe 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, “Mather” — the 818th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.