Macher
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɑxɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Macher is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
1. habitational name for someone from any of several places called Machem, for example near Leipzig. 2. from a Germanic personal name formed with mag ‘kinsman’ or magan ‘might’ + hari ‘army’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Macher is read(measured from records)
Macher is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German26%
1. habitational name for someone from any of several places called Machem, for example near Leipzig. 2. from a Germanic personal name formed with mag ‘kinsman’ or magan ‘might’ + hari ‘army’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
agent noun of machen; maker (male or of unspecified sex; one who makes; person or thing that makes or produces something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Macher in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macher counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 384 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 74 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 50 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 49 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 32 | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Macher is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of maser
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In szl, expert, professional
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, expert, specialist
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)
- Mathias Macherb. 1793ATAustrian author (1793-1876)
- Walter Macherb. 1915ATAustrian politician
- Heinz Macherb. 1919DESS officer (1919–2001)
- Friedrich Macherb. 1922DEformer German trade union official and politician
- Egon Macherb. 1924DEGerman physician and dermatologist (1924-2008)
- Helena Macherb. 1937PLPolish luger
- Gloria Macherb. 1953CAPeruvian-Canadian writer
- Szilárd Macherb. 1974HUballet dancer
- Julia Macherb. 1975DEGerman journalist
- José Carlos Silva MacherPEPeruvian engineer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 384 | #51,024 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 337 | #63,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 308 | #64,559 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 74 | #79,169 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 50 | #18,641 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 49 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 49 | #51,013 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 46 | #52,726 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 32 | #61,004 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #60,133 |
| US United States | wru 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)
- 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
- Where does the name Macher come from?
- 1. habitational name for someone from any of several places called Machem, for example near Leipzig. 2. from a Germanic personal name formed with mag ‘kinsman’ or magan ‘might’ + hari ‘army’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Macher?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑxɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Macher mean?
- In English, An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.
- In which country does Macher have the most bearers?
- Macher is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Macher?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macherThe 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, “Macher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.