Mahler

At the 2020 census, 5,111 Americans bore the surname Mahler — 6,397th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 58,500.

By the numbers

People: 5,111
Rank: 6,397th
How common: 1 in 58,500
Per 100,000: 1.7

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mahler described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 89.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Mahler

Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)Austrian late-Romantic composer
Alma Mahler (1879–1964)Austrian composer, art collector, author, editor, and socialite
Horst Mahler (1936–2025)German political activist
Margaret Mahler (1897–1985)Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Anna Mahler (1904–1988)Austrian sculptor
Hedwig Courths-Mahler (1867–1950)German writer
Halfdan T. Mahler (1923–2016)Danish medical doctor and director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Bruce Mahler (born 1950)American actor, producer and writer

People named Mahler with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mahler

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.