Mähle
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Mähle 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 small man (see Maly), or a child’s pet name retained as a nickname in adult life.
- NONorway1 in 33K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 289K
- BRBrazil1 in 814K
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 Mähle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
1,151 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mahle in US United States, DE Germany and Maehle in NO Norway.
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 small man (see Maly), or a child’s pet name retained as a nickname in adult life.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mähle is found
(measured from records)Mähle 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 | 1,151 | 1 in 289K | 1.2K | Mahle | 93 |
| BR Brazil | 260 | 1 in 814K | 260 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 168 | 1 in 33K | 168 | Maehle | 13 |
| DE Germany | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Mahle | 60 |
| IN India | 38 | 1 in 35M | 38 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 1 |
1,151 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Gunnar Maehleb. 1916EEnot in their usual nameEstonian physician (1916-1984)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mähle mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a small man (see Maly), or a child’s pet name retained as a nickname in adult life. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mähle?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Mähle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahle. After it come Brazil, Norway, Germany and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mähle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mähle is densest in Norway — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mähle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,151 people named Mähle in 2010, about 1 in 289 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4hleThe 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, “Mähle”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.