Materne
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mətɜn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Materne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- BEBelgium1 in 12K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Materne 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 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Materne | 72 |
| BE Belgium | 1,002 | 1 in 12K | 1K | Materne | 32 |
| US United States | 298 | 1 in 1.1M | 314 | Materne | 131 |
| FR France | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 312K | 34 | — | 1 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 281K | — | Materne | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Materne | 53 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Materne | 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Materne 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 Latin, vocative masculine singular of māternus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine plural of materno
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1K | #1,329 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 884 | #1,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 314 | #67,683 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 298 | #66,371 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 272 | #67,725 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 24 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
- 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
- How do you pronounce Materne?
- A machine transcription gives /mətɜn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Materne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Materne in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled materne.
- Where is Materne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Materne is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Materne?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 1,002 people named Materne in 2008, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Materne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/materneThe 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, “Materne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.