Madler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1.(also Madler) habitational name from any of various small places in southern Germany and Austria with names such as Madl and Madlau
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mədɫɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M
- ATAustria≈1 in 259K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Madler itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mädler in DE Germany and Maedler in KE Kenya.
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.(also Madler) habitational name from any of various small places in southern Germany and Austria with names such as Madl and Madlau. 2. (Madler) from a Germanic personal name composed of Old High German mahal ‘traditional meeting place of a court’ -I- hari ‘army’ (compare Mehling).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Madler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Mädler | 50 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Madler | 3 |
| US United States | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 279 | Madler | 139 |
| KE Kenya | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 360K | — | Maedler | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Madler | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 259K | — | Madler | 13 |
| IE Ireland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Madler | 1 |
| FI Finland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Madler | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Karl Mädlerb. 1902DEGerman paleobotanist and palynologist
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 279 | #74,639 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 246 | #73,412 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 230 | #82,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Madler come from?
- 1.(also Madler) habitational name from any of various small places in southern Germany and Austria with names such as Madl and Madlau. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Madler?
- A machine transcription gives /mədɫɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Madler mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1.(also Madler) habitational name from any of various small places in southern Germany and Austria with names such as Madl and Madlau.
- In which country does Madler have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 893 people named Madler in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mädler.
- How common is the name Madler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 230 people named Madler in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/madlerThe 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, “Madler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.