Nather
surname · Latin script
Meaning: neither
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəðɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nather is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 62K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
- ATAustria≈1 in 146K
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
- 104 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Näther in DE Germany, SE Sweden and Naether in PL Poland.
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)
neither
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nather 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 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Näther | 65 |
| US United States | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 142 | Nather | 104 |
| PL Poland | 74 | 1 in 517K | 37 | Naether | 2 |
| IN India | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 21M | 4 | Nather | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Nather | 15 |
| SE Sweden | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 564K | 17 | Näther | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Natherb. 1820CZCzech historian (1820-1899)
- Friedrich Natherb. 1924DEGerman university teacher (1924-2009)
- Ed Natherb. 1926USAmerican astronomer (1926–2014)
- Heinz Natherb. 1927LVGerman architect
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 142 | #126,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #61,030 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #61,504 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #3,998 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Nather mean, and where does it come from?
- neither Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nather?
- A machine transcription gives /nəðɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nather have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Nather in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled näther.
- How common is the name Nather?
- In the United States, the national register counted 117 people named Nather in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Nather?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/natherThe 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, “Nather”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.