Móder

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country

Móder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Various origins: * Borrowed from German Moder, from a Proto-Germanic personal name composed of the elements *mōdaz (“boldness, courage”) + *harjaz (“army”).

  • SISlovenia1 in 42K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 112K
  • CZCzechia1 in 306K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

616 people, 2010

Record sources
35 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moder in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia.

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)
Derivation of Móder: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Móder
  1. GermanModer(measured from records)
  2. SlovakMóder(measured from records)
  3. Middle High Germanmader“reaper”(measured from records)
  4. PolishModer(measured from records)
  5. Middle Low Germanmōder“mother“mother, womb; mare”(measured from records)
  6. SloveneModer(measured from records)
  7. Slovene rootmoder“wise“wise, prudent”(measured from records)
  8. SwedishModér(measured from records)
  9. Swedish rootmo“sandy heath”(measured from records)

Various origins: * Borrowed from German Moder, from a Proto-Germanic personal name composed of the elements *mōdaz (“boldness, courage”) + *harjaz (“army”). * Borrowed from Slovak Móder, an occupational surname from Middle High German mader (“reaper”). * Borrowed from Polish Moder, from Middle Low German mōder (“mother, womb; mare”). * Borrowed from Slovene Moder, a nickname for a wise man, from moder (“wise, prudent”). * Borrowed from Swedish Modér, an ornamental surname whose first element is from mo (“sandy heath”).

Cited for this meaning 3

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Móder 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 Móder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6161 in 540K679MoDeR6
PL Poland3411 in 112K173MoDeR35
SI Slovenia501 in 42K50——
BR Brazil451 in 4.7M45——
CZ Czechia351 in 306K35MoDeR15
CH Switzerland261 in 323K26——

616 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling moder. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Móder is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Spanish

    Also written MoDeR, Moeder, Möder, Möeder

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Móder mean, and where does it come from?
Various origins: * Borrowed from German Moder, from a Proto-Germanic personal name composed of the elements *mōdaz (“boldness, courage”) + *harjaz (“army”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Móder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 616 people named Móder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled MoDeR.
Where is Móder most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Móder is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 42 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Móder?
In the United States, the national register counted 616 people named Móder in 2010, about 1 in 540 thousand residents.

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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, “Móder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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