Mauve
surname · Latin script
Meaning: mallow
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/mov/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mauve is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 145K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 985K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
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
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)mallow
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mauve 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 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 145K | 82 | Mauve | 145 |
| DE Germany | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 985K | listed | — | — |
| ES Spain | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Mauve | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | 3 |
| US United States | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 35M | 6 | Mauve | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | 1 | Mauve | 6 |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the dfa-band-5 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mauve 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 English, A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, seagull, herring gull
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)- Anton Mauveb. 1838NLDutch painter (1838–1888)
- Franz Mauveb. 1864DEGerman Marineoffizier (1864-1931)
- Anton Rudolf Mauveb. 1876NLDutch painter (1876-1962)
- Anna Amelia Obermeyerb. 1907ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African botanist (1907-2001)
- Maarten Mauveb. 1912NLDutch university teacher
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 88 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 87 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 82 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 78 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 39 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 27 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #57,049 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Mauve mean, and where does it come from?
- mallow Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mauve?
- In the etymology graph, Meeuw and Möwe are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mauve?
- A machine transcription gives /mov/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Mauve have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 467 people named Mauve in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mauve.
- How common is the name Mauve?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 14 people named Mauve in 2007, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/mauveThe 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, “Mauve”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.