Mäder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower) (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Mäder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 86th most common surname. Mäder is also written มาเดอร in Thai.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.9K
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mäder in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mader in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 1 more and Maeder in CH Switzerland.
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)Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower). Bearer count 1734.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mäder is found
(measured from records)Mäder 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 | #481 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | listed | Mader | 149 |
| US United States | — | 5,434 | 1 in 61K | 5.4K | Mader | 307 |
| CH Switzerland | #86 | 3,712 | 1 in 2.3K | 3.7K | Maeder | 64 |
| AT Austria | #196 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Mader | 92 |
| BR Brazil | — | 993 | 1 in 213K | 993 | — | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 166 | 1 in 33K | 166 | — | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Mader | 1 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hellmuth Mäderb. 1908DEGerman general (1908–1984)
- Joana Mäderb. 1991CHSwiss beach volleyball player
- Gino Mäderb. 1997CHSwiss cyclist (1997–2023)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Mäder come from?
- Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower). Bearer count 1734. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What does the name Mäder mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mäder?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Mäder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mader. After it come United States, Switzerland, Austria and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mäder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mäder is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mäder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,434 people named Mäder in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Mäder compared with other names?
- In Germany, Mäder is the 481st most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Mäder” — the 481st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.