Madera
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from madera ‘wood’, ‘timber’ (from Late Latin materia), probably applied as a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example La Madera in Asturies
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Madera is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- MXMexico
- ESSpain
- DODominican Republic
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from madera ‘wood’, ‘timber’ (from Late Latin materia), probably applied as a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example La Madera in Asturies.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madera 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 | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | — | 220 | Madera | 124 |
| ES Spain | — | 1.7K | Madera | 94 |
| IN India | — | 5 | Madera | 9 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | — | Madera | 45 |
| CO Colombia | — | 1 | Madera | 74 |
| US United States | — | 9.6K | Madera | 278 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2.4K | — | 50 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 1.8K | — | 30 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; the co-datosgov-candidates 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Madera is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ethnic name from an old word for a Hungarian (see Magyar).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, town, Mexico; volcano, Nicaragua
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Polish, Madeira (an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, madeira (wine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, wood
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)
- Gregorio López Maderab. 1562ESSpanish jurist (1562-1649)
- Vicente Madera Peñab. 1896ESSpanish politician (1896-1983)
- José de Jesús Madera Uribeb. 1927USAmerican bishop (1927–2017)
- Yorlin Maderab. 1975DOAmerican actor
- Kasia Maderab. 1976GBBritish journalist
- Hemky Maderab. 1977USAmerican actor
- Jacqueline Maderab. 1980USAmerican beauty pageant contestant
- Sebastian Maderab. 1985PLPolish footballer
- Osvaldo MaderaCLChilean recording artist; singer
- Teresita MaderaARArgentinian politician
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 33 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.6K | #3,705 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #3,984 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.2K | #4,549 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 2.4K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.8K | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,766 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,766 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 220 | #1,142 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 5 | #143,546 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 1 | #115 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Madera mean, and where does it come from?
- from madera ‘wood’, ‘timber’ (from Late Latin materia), probably applied as a topographic name or a habitational name from a place named with this word, as for example La Madera in Asturies. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Madera have the most bearers?
- Madera is most frequently recorded in Mexico, where it is most often spelled madera.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maderaThe 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, “Madera”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.