Murer

surname · Latin script

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

Murer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: occupational name from Mur ‘brick wall’, originally German.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 53K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 77K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,400 people, est.

Sources
121 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mürer in NO Norway.

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 from Mur ‘brick wall’, originally German.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Murer 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 Murer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 581K—Murer1
CH Switzerland#9491,2341 in 6.8K1.2KMurer47
BR Brazil—5821 in 364K582——
FR France—≈570 est.≈1 in 119K82—3
IT Italy—≈290 est.≈1 in 213KlistedMurer17
AT Austria—≈120 est.≈1 in 77K—Murer26
NO Norway—1041 in 53K104Mürer6
DK Denmark—391 in 150K39——

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Murer is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Switzerland, United States, Belgium

    Also written Mürer

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mürer

  • Danish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Switzerland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Mürer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mürer

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland

    Also written Mürer

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Switzerland, United States

    Also written Mürer

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Mürer

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Murer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, to wall; wall off

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, var. dialetal set. de Muraro

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Muraro

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of mur

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, bricklayer, mason

    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)

1400160018002000Jos Murer, b. 1530Christoph Murer, b. 1558Eugène Murer, b. 1845Franz Murer, b. 1912Augusto Murer, b. 1922Fredi M. Murer, b. 1940Gerulf Murer, b. 1941Delia Murer, b. 1955Marika Murer, b. 1977Fabiana Murer, b. 1981

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Murer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.2K#915
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—582#14,838
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1951122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1931112—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—104#14,661
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196199—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198194—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194192—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199182—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197179—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192178—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191169—

Reference works 5

  • 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)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Murer mean, and where does it come from?
occupational name from Mur ‘brick wall’, originally German. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Murer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Murer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled murer.
Where is Murer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Murer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Murer?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,234 people named Murer in 2024, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
How common is Murer compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Murer is the 949th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Murer” — the 949th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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