Flater
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Flater is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Of German origin.
- USUnited States1 in 589K◐
- GTGuatemala1 in 137K
- NONorway1 in 162K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin●
Of German origin.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
| Country | Share of this name | |
|---|---|---|
| US United States | 4,504 | 78% |
| GB United Kingdom | 189 | 3% |
| CA Canada | 102 | 2% |
| NO Norway | 76 | 1% |
| GT Guatemala | 75 | 1% |
≈4,946 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English5.1K89%
- Spanish1603%
- German952%
- Hungarian721%
- Norwegian Bokmål701%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 5,109 | 89% |
| Spanish | 160 | 3% |
| German | 95 | 2% |
| Hungarian | 72 | 1% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 70 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Felix Flaterb. 1867DEHolocaust victim (born 1867)
- Elise Cohnb. 1869PLnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1869-02-10
- Jack Flaterb. 1883USAmerican baseball player (1883-1970)
- Mike Flaterb. 1950USAmerican soccer player
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●
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 648 | #37,037 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 583 | #38,050 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 537 | #38,706 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 70 | #20,724 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 26 | #30,302 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #3,095 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12 | #59,909 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #13,626 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #82,096 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-03 data build · 10 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Flater?
- Our records include 4,946 bearers of Flater across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Flater have the most bearers?
- Flater is most frequently recorded in the United States.
- What does the name Flater mean?
- Recorded meaning: Of German origin.
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About this data
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Flater”. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.