Máder
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Máder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 86th most common surname. Recorded meaning: metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mcedere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.2K
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.5K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mader in US United States, DE Germany, AT Austria and 1 more and Maeder in CH Switzerland.
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)
metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mcedere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Máder 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Mader | 4 |
| DE Germany | #481 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | listed | Mader | 149 |
| US United States | — | 5,434 | 1 in 61K | 5.4K | Mader | 307 |
| CH Switzerland | #86 | 3,712 | 1 in 2.3K | 3.7K | Maeder | 64 |
| AT Austria | #196 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Mader | 92 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 232 | 1 in 46K | 232 | — | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 166 | 1 in 33K | 166 | — | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #38,115 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Máder mean, and where does it come from?
- metonymic occupational name for a dyer or seller of dye, from Middle English mad(d)er ‘madder’ (Old English mcedere), a pink to red dye obtained from the roots of the madder plant. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Máder have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Máder in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mader.
- Where is Máder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Máder is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Máder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,434 people named Máder in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
- How common is Máder compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Máder is the 86th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A1derThe 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, “Máder” — the 86th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.