With a day devoted to honoring mothers coming up here in the US, we thought we’d honor some here at BillionGraves. Our database of headstones is a great resource for your personal family history research, but did you know it also provides other interesting data that we can tap into? We did a bit of our own research and found the top 100 epitaphs transcribed in our database. These beautiful epitaphs show devotion to fathers, mothers, brothers, daughters, war heroes, and other loved ones.
As we looked specifically for epitaphs honoring mothers, we found that in the top 100 epitaphs, “Mother” is included in 28 of the entries. Then, we found that the word “Mother” is contained in 16% of all epitaphs in our database. Mothers are revered members of society, and it shows in the headstones you’ve collected for BillionGraves.
Check out this table of the most popular epitaphs about moms:
Records Epitaph
| 6,149 | Mother |
| 1,101 | Beloved wife and mother |
| 1,008 | Beloved Mother |
| 559 | Wife |
| 530 | His Wife |
| 454 | Beloved Wife |
| 301 | Loving Wife and Mother |
| 232 | Wife and Mother |
| 226 | Mom |
| 217 | Beloved Mother And Grandmother |
| 168 | Loving Mother |
| 152 | Our Mother |
| 85 | Grandmother |
Happy mother’s day to all you BillionGravers! We’ll be finding more interesting facts for you from our database in the near future, so stay tuned.
