Maber
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Mabor in Buckland Monachorum, Devon; first attested Nathaniel Maber 1662–4 HTDo
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məbɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maber is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 99K(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 314K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 402K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Mabor in Buckland Monachorum, Devon; first attested Nathaniel Maber 1662–4 HTDo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maber 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Maber | 15 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 556K | 249 | Maber | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 402K | — | Maber | 37 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Maber | 31 |
| US United States | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | 6 | Maber | 57 |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 571K | — | Maber | 14 |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | 4 |
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: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 249 | #18,522 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Maber mean, and where does it come from?
- from Mabor in Buckland Monachorum, Devon; first attested Nathaniel Maber 1662–4 HTDo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Maber?
- A machine transcription gives /məbɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 180 people named Maber in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maber.
- How common is the name Maber?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6 people named Maber, about 1 in 8.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maberThe 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, “Maber”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.