Maag

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Maag is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Middle Dutch maech, mage.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 124K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.6K
  • LILiechtenstein≈1 in 5.3K

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)

2,678 people, 2010

Sources
261 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from Middle Dutch maech, mage. Middle High German mac, mage ‘relative’, ‘kinsman’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Maag 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.

Where Maag is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,6781 in 124K2.7KMaag261
CH Switzerland—1,8291 in 4.6K1.8KMaag30
CA Canada—≈520 est.≈1 in 73K—Maag28
SA Saudi Arabia—≈500 est.≈1 in 68K—Maag2
IT Italy—≈360 est.≈1 in 174K—Maag2
CU Cuba—≈170 est.≈1 in 67K—Maag1
LI Liechtenstein—≈7 est.≈1 in 5.3K8——
BB Barbados#682———Maag1

2,678 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Maag is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mååg

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Mååg

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Ma-Ag

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Maag is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu einem germanischen Rufnamen; im nd. Raum mit r-Schwund belegt. 838 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In Indonesian, nonstandard spelling of mag

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, stomach, gut

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Afrikaans, stomach

    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)

1850190019502000Rudolf Maag, b. 1883Hans Maag, b. 1916Peter Maag, b. 1919Elsbeth Maag, b. 1944Ron Maag, b. 1945Karin Maag, b. 1962Bruno Maag, b. 1962Nina Maag, b. 1972Dan Maag, b. 1975Natalie Maag, b. 1997

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 29 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Maag
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.7K#11,704
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,362
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#11,847
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.8K#539
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)20208—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Maag come from?
from Middle Dutch maech, mage. Middle High German mac, mage ‘relative’, ‘kinsman’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What does the name Maag mean?
Recorded meaning: from Middle Dutch maech, mage.
In which country does Maag have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Maag, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maag.
Where is Maag most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maag is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 4.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Maag?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,678 people named Maag in 2010, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
How common is Maag compared with other names?
In Barbados, Maag is the 682nd most common surname of 11,500 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, “Maag” — the 682nd most common surname in Barbados. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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