Maugeri
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a habitational name from Maugeri in Catania, although Caracausi explains the name as a variant of Malgeri, which he associates with a Germanic personal name composed of the elements amal ‘str
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/maʊˈd͡ʒɛ.ɾɪ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Maugeri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 90K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 165K
- BEBelgium1 in 391K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
580 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)probably a habitational name from Maugeri in Catania, although Caracausi explains the name as a variant of Malgeri, which he associates with a Germanic personal name composed of the elements amal ‘strength’, ‘energy’ + gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maugeri is found
(measured from records)Maugeri 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 | 580 | 1 in 574K | 588 | Maugeri | 36 |
| AR Argentina | 506 | 1 in 90K | 506 | Maugeri | 42 |
| CH Switzerland | 51 | 1 in 165K | 51 | Maugeri | 5 |
| ES Spain | 38 | 1 in 1.3M | 38 | Maugeri | 14 |
| BR Brazil | 33 | 1 in 6.4M | 33 | Maugeri | 19 |
| BE Belgium | 30 | 1 in 391K | 30 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
580 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Maugeri 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.
In English, A surname from Sicilian.
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Francesco Maugerib. 1898ITItalian admiral (1898–1978)
- Mauro Maugerib. 1959ITItalian water polo player (1959-2017)
- Leonardo Maugerib. 1964ITItalian businessman and writer (1964–2017)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maugeri mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a habitational name from Maugeri in Catania, although Caracausi explains the name as a variant of Malgeri, which he associates with a Germanic personal name composed of the elements amal ‘str… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maugeri?
- It depends on the language: in English /maʊˈd͡ʒɛ.ɾɪ/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /mauɣɛri/; in Italian /maud͡ʒɛri/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maugeri?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 580 people named Maugeri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maugeri. After it come Argentina, Switzerland, Spain and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Maugeri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maugeri is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 90 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maugeri?
- In the United States, the national register counted 580 people named Maugeri in 2010, about 1 in 574 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maugeriThe 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, “Maugeri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.