Maker
loc · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for someone who made or repaired things, from an agent derivative of Dutch maken ‘to make or mend’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Maker is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
- GBUnited Kingdom
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 249 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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 name for someone who made or repaired things, from an agent derivative of Dutch maken ‘to make or mend’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Maker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Maker | 94 |
| US United States | — | 2K | — | 249 |
| FI Finland | — | 25 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | — | 4 |
| ES Spain | — | 7 | — | 10 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Maker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from machen
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Basque, counterfeit, fake; surly, disagreeable, rude
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
In English, Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, maker (person or thing that makes, produces or repairs something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, indefinite plural of make
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)- Betty Makerb. 1925NZcricketer (1925-2004)
- Gregory Makerb. 1950USAmerican bassist
- Maker Mwangu Fambab. 1950CDCongolese politician
- Mike Makerb. 1965USAmerican basketball coach
- Thon Makerb. 1997SSAustralian basketball player (born 1997)
- Matur Makerb. 1998AUAustralian basketball player (born 1998)
- Maker Makerb. 1999SSSouth Sudanese footballer (born 1999)
- Makur Makerb. 2000AUAustralian basketball player (born 2000)
- Joyce MakerUSAmerican politician
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #14,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,699 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #45,946 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Maker mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for someone who made or repaired things, from an agent derivative of Dutch maken ‘to make or mend’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Maker have the most bearers?
- Maker is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled maker.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/makerThe 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, “Maker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.