Mawby

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from Mautby in Norfolk

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/məwbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mawby is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 878K(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 7.1M
  • PLPoland1 in 19M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mawby itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

379 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 878K (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MawbyLatin(measured from records)
МобиCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

habitational name from Mautby in Norfolk. Compare Maultsby.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mawby 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.

Where Mawby is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3791 in 878K379Mawby3
NO Norway24as Moby1 in 228K24——
SE Sweden16as Moby1 in 638K16——
ES Spain71 in 7.1M7——
IN India5as Moby1 in 265M5—1
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

379 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

19201940196019802000Ray Mawby, b. 1922Colin Mawby, b. 1936William D. Mawby, b. 1952Demi Rose, b. 1995

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)

FormalDear Mawby,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Mawby
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010379#54,418
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020376#58,307
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000374#52,174
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—7#143,513
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#364,622
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Mawby come from?
habitational name from Mautby in Norfolk. Compare Maultsby. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Mawby?
A machine transcription gives /məwbi/ (IPA) for English.
What does the name Mawby mean?
Recorded meaning: habitational name from Mautby in Norfolk.
In which country does Mawby have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 379 people named Mawby, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mawby.
Where is Mawby most common?
Mawby is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 878 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mawby?
In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Mawby in 2010, about 1 in 878 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, “Mawby”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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