Mäe
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mäe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From English Mae.
- HUHungary≈1 in 3M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 13K
- SESweden1 in 17K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
25,052 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mae in US United States, HU Hungary, FI Finland.
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)
From English Mae.
Sources 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Whats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mäe 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.
25,052 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Johann Mäeb. 1894EEEstonian and Soviet military personnel (1894-1944)
- Hjalmar Mäeb. 1901EEEstonian politician (1901-1978)
- Aivar Mäeb. 1960EEEstonian conductor and musician (born 1960)
- Aarne Mäeb. 1967EEEstonian journalist (born 1967)
- Vahur Mäeb. 1980EEEstonian rower (born 1980)
- Epp Mäeb. 1992EEEstonian amateur wrestler, judoka and sumo wrestler (born 1992)
- Mikk Mäeb. 1996EEEstonian singer (born 1996)
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 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Mäe mean, and where does it come from?
- From English Mae. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Mäe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Mäe, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mae.
- Where is Mäe most common?
- Mäe is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mäe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,052 people named Mäe in 2020, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Mäe compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Mäe is the 607th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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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%A4eThe 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, “Mäe” — the 607th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.