Mather

Mather is the 5,470th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,144 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 48,600.

By the numbers

People: 6,144
Rank: 5,470th
How common: 1 in 48,600
Per 100,000: 2.1

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

From the Old English mæþere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Mather

John C. Mather (born 1946)American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Cotton Mather (1663–1728)American religious minister and scientific writer
Increase Mather (1639–1723)Puritan minister, academic, activist
John Mather (1942–2017)American mathematician

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

Surnames like Mather

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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.