Mawer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OE māwan 'to mow', 'a mower'; first attested John le Mawere 1225 AssSo
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məwɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mawer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 651Kas Мауэр(inferred from the name graph)
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 101K
- SISlovenia1 in 34Kas Mauer
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mawer 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
3,336 named Mower, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mower in US United States and Мауэр in RU Russia.
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 OE māwan 'to mow', 'a mower'; first attested John le Mawere 1225 AssSo
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mawer 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 | 3,336as Mower | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Mower | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 684as Mauer | 1 in 310K | 684 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 245as Mauer | 1 in 44K | 248 | — | — |
| RU Russia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 651K | — | Мауэр | 82 |
| PL Poland | 186as Mauer | 1 in 206K | 98 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 111as Mauer | 1 in 49K | 111 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 62as Mauer | 1 in 34K | 62 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 1 | 1 in 101K | 1 | — | — |
3,336 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)
- John Mawerb. 1703GBEnglish cleric, poet and biblical translator
- Catherine Mawerb. 1803GBEnglish architectural sculptor
- Allen Mawerb. 1879GBScholar of place names and university administrator (1879-1942)
- Barbara Mawerb. 1936GBBritish biochemist and medical researcher
- Philip Mawerb. 1947GBBritish civil servant
- Simon Mawerb. 1948GBEnglish author
- Shaun Mawerb. 1959GBEnglish footballer (1959-2010)
- Gary Mawerb. 1969IEIrish canoeist
- Daniel Mawerb. 1991GBBritish ice hockey player
- Jane Mawerwriter
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 236 | #85,336 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 196 | #93,513 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 191 | #89,895 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #136,121 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #144,043 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 1 | #261 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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 Mawer mean, and where does it come from?
- from OE māwan 'to mow', 'a mower'; first attested John le Mawere 1225 AssSo Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Mawer?
- A machine transcription gives /məwɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mawer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.3 thousand people named Mower, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mawer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mawer is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 101 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mawer?
- In St. Vincent & Grenadines, the national register counted 1 people named Mawer in 2025, about 1 in 101 thousand 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/mawerThe 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, “Mawer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.