Mahieu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a popular form of the personal name Mathieu, French equivalent of Matthew
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/majø/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mahieu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 973K
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)
- Record sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a popular form of the personal name Mathieu, French equivalent of Matthew.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mahieu 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 | #879 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 772 | Mahieu | 248 |
| BE Belgium | #109 | 4,813 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.8K | Mahieu | 101 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 394 | 1 in 44K | 394 | Mahieu | 29 |
| US United States | — | 342 | 1 in 973K | 362 | Mahieu | 169 |
| AR Argentina | — | 102 | 1 in 446K | 102 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 35 | 1 in 240K | 35 | Mahieu | 7 |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 1 in 391K | 14 | — | 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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Albert Mahieub. 1860FRFrench politician (1860–1926)
- Émile Mahieub. 1861BEBelgian painter
- Charles Mahieub. 1894BEBelgian actor (1894-1964)
- Marc Mahieub. 1934BEBelgian politician and lawyer (1934-1998)
- Pol Mahieub. 1944BEBelgian cyclist (1944–2022)
- Philippe Mahieub. 1952FRFrench politician
- Gilles Mahieub. 1964BEGovernor of Walloon Brabant
- Jesse Mahieub. 1978NLfield hockey player
- Vincent Mahieub. 1985researcher who publishes on ancient Mediterranean
- Romain Mahieub. 1995FRFrench 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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 4.8K | #109 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 4.5K | #119 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 876 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 842 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 823 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 803 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 772 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 724 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 615 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 579 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 450 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 444 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Mahieu mean, and where does it come from?
- from a popular form of the personal name Mathieu, French equivalent of Matthew. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mahieu?
- A machine transcription gives /majø/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mahieu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Mahieu in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mahieu.
- Where is Mahieu most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mahieu is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mahieu?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 4,813 people named Mahieu in 2008, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Mahieu compared with other names?
- In France, Mahieu is the 879th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mahieuThe 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, “Mahieu” — the 879th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.