Mummer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mummer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 542K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.6M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 542K (inferred from the name graph)
≈49 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mummer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | listed | Mummer | 24 |
| US United States | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Mummer | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 542K | — | Mummer | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Mummer | 6 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 22M | — | Mummer | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | — | Mummer | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Mummer | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | 2 | 1 in 2.5M | 2 | — | — |
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: the dfa-band-2 register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #18,298 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Mummer mean, and where does it come from?
- A person who dons a disguising costume, as for a parade or a festival. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mummer?
- In the etymology graph, Mummery is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mummer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 49 people named Mummer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mummer.
- How common is the name Mummer?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 2 people named Mummer, about 1 in 2.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mummerThe 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, “Mummer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.