Maslow
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maslow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products.
- USUnited States1 in 636K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 114K
- CACanada≈1 in 483K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 114K (inferred from the name graph)
523 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maslow 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 | 523 | 1 in 636K | 523 | Maslow | 208 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 581K | — | Maslow | 37 |
| CA Canada | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 483K | — | Maslow | 25 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 924K | — | Maslow | 19 |
| IT Italy | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 898K | — | Maslow | 6 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 114K | — | Maslow | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Maslow | 6 |
523 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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. 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)
Maslow is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Possibly a shortened form of Polish and Jewish Maslowski.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Arkadi Maslowb. 1891UAGerman politician (1891-1941)
- Will Maslowb. 1907USAmerican activist (1907–2007)
- Abraham Maslowb. 1909USAmerican psychologist (1908–1970)
- Victor Maslovb. 1910RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer (1910–1977)
- Victor Pavlovich Maslovb. 1930RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1930–2023)
- Steve Maslowb. 1944USSound engineer (1944–2026)
- Aleksey Maslovb. 1953RUnot in their usual nameRussian general (1953–2022)
- Aleksandr Maslovb. 1969RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer and manager
- Viktor Maslovb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian racing driver
- James Maslowb. 1990USAmerican actor and singer
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 9 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 523 | #41,579 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 513 | #44,979 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 505 | #40,761 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Maslow mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from maslo ‘butter’, presumably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a dairyman or a seller of dairy products. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Maslow have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 523 people named Maslow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maslow.
- How common is the name Maslow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 523 people named Maslow in 2010, about 1 in 636 thousand residents.
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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, “Maslow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.