Mahder
org · Latin script
Meaning: from mhd. mädaere 'mower, reaper'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mahder is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 547K(measured from records)
- PLPoland≈1 in 1.1M
- CACanada≈1 in 1.7M
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 547K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maehder in DE Germany, CA Canada.
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 mhd. mädaere 'mower, reaper'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mahder 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | — | 64 |
| DE Germany | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | listed | Maehder | 15 |
| PL Poland | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 4 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Maehder | 6 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 10 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | — | 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: the dfa-band-5 register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #57,030 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mahder mean, and where does it come from?
- from mhd. mädaere 'mower, reaper' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Mahder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 people named Mahder in the United States, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mahder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahder is densest in Norway — about 1 in 547 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mahder?
- In Norway, the national register counted 10 people named Mahder, about 1 in 547 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/mahderThe 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, “Mahder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.