Mahaut
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht 'strength' + hild 'battle'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mao/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahaut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 148K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 2.4M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈910 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Old French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht 'strength' + hild 'battle'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahaut 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 75K | 2.5K | Mahaut | 170 |
| BE Belgium | 79 | 1 in 148K | 79 | Mahaut | 19 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | listed | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 9 | 1 in 5.6M | 9 | Mahaut | 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mahaut is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, a female given name from Old French, of historical usage, equivalent to English Maud
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Forme médiévale de Mathilde; d’origine germanique, « force au combat ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Antoine Mahautb. 1720FRFrench musician
- Albert-Jules Mahautb. 1882FRFrench military personnel (1882–1961)
- Oda Mahautb. 1887FRfencer (1887–1955)
- Kate Mahautb. 1908DKDanish fencer (1908–1988)
- Timéo Mahautactor
- Elisabeth MahautFRFrench racing cyclist
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 146 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 140 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 136 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 127 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 113 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 102 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 101 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 92 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 79 | #18,645 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 77 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Mahaut mean, and where does it come from?
- Old French form of Matilda, from Germanic maht 'strength' + hild 'battle'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Mahaut?
- In the etymology graph, Tilly and Mallt are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mahaut?
- A machine transcription gives /mao/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mahaut have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 905 people named Mahaut in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahaut.
- How common is the name Mahaut?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 79 people named Mahaut in 2008, about 1 in 148 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mahaut?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahautThe 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, “Mahaut”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.