Burmeister
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zum mhd. bûrmeister, mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Burmeister is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 19K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 52K
- USUnited States1 in 73K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Burmeister itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
4,543 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Zum mhd. bûrmeister, mnd. bûrmêster 'Vorsteher einer Dorfgemeinde'; Bur-/Bauer- zu mnd. (ge)bûre 'Nachbar, Gemeindegenosse'. 3862 Träger. Zeigt die Vokalvarianz Bauer- / Bur- / Burm-.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Burmeister counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,543 | 1 in 73K | 4.5K | Burmeister | 179 |
| DK Denmark | — | 303 | 1 in 19K | 303 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 108 | 1 in 52K | 108 | — | 7 |
| SE Sweden | — | 88 | 1 in 116K | 88 | — | 13 |
| BR Brazil | — | 77 | 1 in 2.7M | 77 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 63 | 1 in 133K | 63 | Burmeister | 14 |
| DE Germany | #699 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 27M | listed | Burmeister | 142 |
4,543 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Burmeister is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Amtssurname: aus mhd./mnd. būrmeister 'Vorsteher einer Dorfgemeinde' (Gemeindevorsteher). Bearer count not given.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: Burmeister/Bürgermeister, ein Gemeindevorsteher bzw. Bürgermeister; Bearer count not printed on this page.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname: aus Bürgermeister/Burggraf-Bedeutungsfeld, Amts- bzw. Verwaltungsbeamter; Belegzahl 6715.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname zu Bürgermeister/Burmeister: Stadt- oder Dorfgemeindevorsteher; aus Verwaltung.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname für den Orts-/Gemeindevorsteher; niederdeutsche Form von Bürgermeister.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joachim Burmeisterb. 1564DEPoet and Composer
- Hermann Burmeisterb. 1807ARGerman Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, and botanist (1807–1892)
- Richard Burmeisterb. 1860DEGerman composer (1860–1944)
- Friedrich Burmeisterb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1968)
- Friedrich Burmeisterb. 1890DEGerman geophysicist (1890–1969)
- Christfried Burmeisterb. 1898EEEstonian speed skater, bandy player and athletics competitor (1898-1965)
- Vladimir Bourmeisterb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet choreographer, ballet master and ballet dancer (1904-1971)
- Lars Burmeisterb. 1981DEGerman model
- Saskia Burmeisterb. 1985AUAustralian actress
- Jana Burmeisterb. 1989DEGerman association footballer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.5K | #7,338 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.5K | #6,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.4K | #7,280 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 303 | #1,564 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 108 | #12,014 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 88 | #7,977 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 77 | #76,923 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 63 | #15,671 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 46 | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Burmeister mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zum mhd. bûrmeister, mnd.
- In which country does Burmeister have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Burmeister, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled burmeister.
- Where is Burmeister most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Burmeister is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Burmeister?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,543 people named Burmeister in 2010, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Burmeister compared with other names?
- In Germany, Burmeister is the 699th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/burmeisterThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Burmeister” — the 699th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.