Mäder

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Pronunciation:Explore pronunciation →

Mäder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 86th most common surname.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 2.9K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 8.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈10,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
307 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MäderLatin(measured from records)
มาเดอรThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower). Bearer count 1734.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Mäder is found

(measured from records)

Mäder 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 Mäder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#481≈10,000 est.≈1 in 8.4KlistedMader149
US United States—5,4341 in 61K5.4KMader307
CH Switzerland#863,7121 in 2.3K3.7KMaeder64
AT Austria#196≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Mader92
BR Brazil—9931 in 213K993—3
SK Slovakia—1661 in 33K166—1
AG Antigua & Barbuda—≈4 est.≈1 in 24K—Mader1

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; the dfa-band-5 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mäder is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Mader, Máder, Mąder

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Canada

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Mader, Mãdēr

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Switzerland, Mexico

    Also written Mader

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Mader, Мадер, Máder

  • Russian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Медер, Мадер, Mader, Meder, Мадёр

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Switzerland

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mader

21 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
190019502000Hellmuth Mäder, b. 1908Joana Mäder, b. 1991Gino Mäder, b. 1997

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)
FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Mäder, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Mäder come from?
Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower). Bearer count 1734. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
What does the name Mäder mean?
Recorded meaning: Occupational surname: Mäher/Mäherin (field mower).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Mäder?
Mondonomo estimates about 10.0 thousand people named Mäder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mader. After it come United States, Switzerland, Austria and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Mäder most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mäder is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.3 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mäder?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,434 people named Mäder in 2010, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
How common is Mäder compared with other names?
In Germany, Mäder is the 481st most common surname of 765,306 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, “Mäder” — the 481st most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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