Mauler
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mauler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 1. occupational name from a dialect form of Mahler.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 109K
- ATAustria≈1 in 160K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1. occupational name from a dialect form of Mahler. 2. nickname for a complainer, from Middle Low German miilen ‘to complain’, ‘to be angry’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mauler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Mauler | 48 |
| US United States | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 337 | Mauler | 140 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 425K | 19 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 137 | 1 in 1.5M | 137 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 98 | 1 in 109K | 98 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Mauler | 26 |
| CH Switzerland | 41 | 1 in 205K | 41 | Mauler | 5 |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Mauler 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.
In English, One who mauls.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ferdinand Maulerb. 1914DEGerman politician (1914-1982)
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Mauler come from?
- 1. occupational name from a dialect form of Mahler. 2. nickname for a complainer, from Middle Low German miilen ‘to complain’, ‘to be angry’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Mauler mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. occupational name from a dialect form of Mahler.
- In which country does Mauler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 301 people named Mauler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mauler.
- Where is Mauler most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mauler is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mauler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 276 people named Mauler in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maulerThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mauler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.