Maebe
surname · Dutch · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Maebe is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Benin it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Dutch and German, written in the Latin script.
- BJBenin1 in 294◐
- ZASouth Africa1 in 13K
- BEBelgium1 in 20K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.6K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 253 ●
- 1 in 20K ◐
across 8 countries
recorded for this name
65K records
Official registry-verified
Belgium
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Mabe in US United States, ZA South Africa, GB United Kingdom and 16 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 6,939 | 54K rec. | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Mabe | 253 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 2,354 | 2.4K rec. | — | — | Mabe | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,971 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Mabe | 64 |
| BJ Benin | #3 | 1,389 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Mabe | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,090 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Mabe | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 721 | 762 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 25 |
| DE Germany | — | 595 | 617 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 18 |
| BE Belgium | — | 588△ | 120 rec. | 1 in 20K | 588 | Maebe | 18 |
| IT Italy | — | 237 | 255 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 6 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 167 | 270 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 19 |
| PH Philippines | — | 137 | 143 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 7 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 109 | 115 rec. | — | — | Mabe | 2 |
Roughly 6.9K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 48K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Dutch1.2K52%
- German62627%
- English1798%
- French1155%
- Swahili1095%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | 1,203 | 52% |
| German | 626 | 27% |
| English | 179 | 8% |
| French | 115 | 5% |
| Swahili | 109 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 588 | #2,528 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 546 | #2,757 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 4 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #14,664 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2020 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1995 | 1 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1984 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2008 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2003 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1998 | 1 | — |
| JP Japan | Japanese Names (O'Neill, 1972) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maebe?
- We estimate roughly 7.6 thousand people bear Maebe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Maebe have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.9 thousand people bear Maebe in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mabe.
- How common is Maebe compared with other names?
- In Benin, Maebe is the 3rd most common surname of 4,497 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maebeThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Maebe” — the 3rd most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.