Mainer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from OG Maginhari ‘army-might’; first attested Mainerus filius Roberti 1207 Cur (Lancashire)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪnɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mainer is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- ESSpain
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from OG Maginhari ‘army-might’; first attested Mainerus filius Roberti 1207 Cur (Lancashire)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mainer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from the Continental Germanic personal name Maginhari, composed of the elements magin ‘strength’, ‘might’ + hari ‘army’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A native or resident of the state of Maine in the United States of America.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, to carry
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)
- J. E. Mainerb. 1898USAmerican Southern old-time fiddler
- Martin Mainerb. 1959CZCzech university educator and artist (born 1959)
- Óscar Mainerb. 1969ESSpanish handball player
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 635 | #33,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 628 | #38,010 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 582 | #38,103 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 225 | #15,164 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 225 | #15,126 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 66 | #86,090 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #72,234 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5 | #8,840 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #229,221 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #63,948 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Mainer mean, and where does it come from?
- from OG Maginhari ‘army-might’; first attested Mainerus filius Roberti 1207 Cur (Lancashire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Mainer?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪnɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mainer have the most bearers?
- Mainer is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Mainer?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mainerThe 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, “Mainer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.