Mulder
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Miller
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɐɫdə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mulder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 477(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 26K
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 Mulder 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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 336 (measured from records)
- 1 in 477 (inferred from the name graph)
36,207 people, 2007
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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)
occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle High German mulde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’, ‘tub’ -I- the agent suffix -er.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mulder is read(measured from records)
Mulder is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English58%
A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Miller.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
(i) Miller. (ii) Maker of wooden bowls.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- Dutch27%
occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle High German mulde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’, ‘tub’ -I- the agent suffix -er.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
a surname, Mulder, originating as an occupation, equivalent to English Miller
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
occupational name from mulder ‘miller’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Muller (see Mueller).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mulder 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | #10 | 36,207 | 1 in 477 | 36K | Mulder | 162 |
| CN China | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 111K | — | Mulder | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | #648 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Mulder | 74 |
| US United States | — | 7,317 | 1 in 45K | 7.3K | Mulder | 336 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Mulder | 133 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Mulder | 128 |
| EE Estonia | — | 646as Mölder | 1 in 1.9K | 646 | — | 3 |
36,207 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Gerardus Johannes Mulderb. 1802NLDutch biochemist (1802-1880)
- Pieter Mulderb. 1951ZASouth African politician
- Karen Mulderb. 1969NLDutch model and singer
- Youri Mulderb. 1969NLDutch soccer player and manager
- Saskia Mulderb. 1973NLactress
- Mark Mulderb. 1977USAmerican baseball player
- Dustley Mulderb. 1985NLDutch footballer
- Michel Mulderb. 1986NLDutch speed skater
- Ronald Mulderb. 1986NLDutch speed skater
- Erwin Mulderb. 1989NLDutch association football player (born 1989)
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 36K | #7 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.3K | #4,822 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.2K | #4,743 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,760 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mulder come from?
- occupational name for a maker of wooden bowls, from Middle High German mulde ‘bowl’, ‘trough’, ‘tub’ -I- the agent suffix -er. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mulder?
- A machine transcription gives /mɐɫdə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mulder mean?
- In English, A surname from Dutch, equivalent to English Miller.
- In which country does Mulder have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Mulder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mulder.
- Where is Mulder most common?
- Mulder is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 477 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mulder?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 36,207 people named Mulder in 2007, about 1 in 477 residents.
- How common is Mulder compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Mulder is the 10th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mulderThe 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, “Mulder” — the 10th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.