Mavros
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mavros, originally a descriptive nickname for a person with a dark or swarthy complexion, Greek mavros ‘black’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mævˈɹoʊz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mavros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 948K(measured from records)
- SOSomalia≈1 in 33K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 35K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Somalia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Μαυρος in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mavros, originally a descriptive nickname for a person with a dark or swarthy complexion, Greek mavros ‘black’. ‘Moorish’, later also meaning ‘poor fellow’ . This nickname may also be the source of the surname. This element is also commonly found in compound names such as Mavrogiannis ‘black John’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mavros 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Mavros | 1 |
| SO Somalia | #657 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Mavros | 1 |
| US United States | — | 351 | 1 in 948K | 351 | Mavros | 161 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Mavros | 80 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 83K | 3 | Μαυρος | 50 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Mavros | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Mavros | 19 |
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; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)
- Nicolae Mavrosb. 1782RORomanian archaeologist (1782-1868)
- Georgios Mavrosb. 1909GRGreek politician (1909-1995)
- Thomas Mavrosb. 1954GRGreek footballer
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)
Attested in 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 351 | #57,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 333 | #64,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 333 | #57,252 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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
- Where does the name Mavros come from?
- from the personal name Mavros, originally a descriptive nickname for a person with a dark or swarthy complexion, Greek mavros ‘black’. ‘Moorish’, later also meaning ‘poor fellow’ . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mavros?
- A machine transcription gives /mævˈɹoʊz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mavros mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the personal name Mavros, originally a descriptive nickname for a person with a dark or swarthy complexion, Greek mavros ‘black’.
- In which country does Mavros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 645 people named Mavros in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mavros.
- How common is the name Mavros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Mavros in 2010, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
- How common is Mavros compared with other names?
- In Somalia, Mavros is the 657th most common surname of 1,614 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mavrosThe 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, “Mavros” — the 657th most common surname in Somalia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.