Maerz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname from the month of March, Middle High German merze, bestowed on someone bom or baptized in March, or with some other particular connection with the month, perhaps a tax or feudal obliga
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maerz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 16Kas März(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 366Kas Marz
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
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 Maerz 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
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 named März, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marz in US United States, PH Philippines, IT Italy and 1 more and März in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
from a nickname from the month of March, Middle High German merze, bestowed on someone bom or baptized in March, or with some other particular connection with the month, perhaps a tax or feudal obligation owing then.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maerz 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 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | März | 94 |
| US United States | 909as Marz | 1 in 366K | 967 | Marz | 222 |
| KE Kenya | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Marz | 2 |
| PH Philippines | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 467K | — | Marz | 25 |
| IT Italy | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Marz | 10 |
| CZ Czechia | 136as März | 1 in 79K | 136 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | März | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 72as März | 1 in 117K | 72 | Maerz | 12 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 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; the dfa-band-5 register; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
- Max Maerzb. 1812DEorgan builder
- Franz Borgias Maerzb. 1848DEorgan builder (1848-1910)
- Wolfgang Maerzb. 1941DEGerman politician
- Uwe Maerzb. 1969DEGerman rower
- Benjamin Maerzb. 1988DEGerman cook
- Jessica Maerzhistorian
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 586 | #37,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 553 | #42,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 549 | #37,986 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| 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
- What does the name Maerz mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname from the month of March, Middle High German merze, bestowed on someone bom or baptized in March, or with some other particular connection with the month, perhaps a tax or feudal obliga… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Maerz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named März in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maerz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maerz is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maerz?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Maerz in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand 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/maerzThe 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, “Maerz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.