Siemens
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/siːmənz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Siemens is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 26K
- USUnited States1 in 203K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Siemens is read(measured from records)
Siemens is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English61%
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German21%
zu Rufname Simon (hebr. šimʾōn 'weil der Herr hörte'); S/Z-Variation, i/ie/ey- und Auslautvarianten
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
zu ahd. sigu 'Sieg'; Rufname Simon/Sigmund o. ä.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymischer Familienname mit lateinischer Genitivendung -is/-ae; zeigt Variantenbildung im Patronym.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Patronymischer Familienname zu Simon; die Karte zeigt S/Z-Variation im Anlaut. 1971 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
- Spanish6.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Siemens in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Siemens 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Siemens | 115 |
| US United States | 1,636 | 1 in 203K | 1.6K | Siemens | 233 |
| CA Canada | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Siemens | 149 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Siemens | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | 227 | 1 in 76K | 227 | Siemens | 15 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Siemens | 8 |
| FI Finland | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Siemens | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Siemens is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, siemens (unit of electrical conductance)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Christian Ferdinand Siemensb. 1787DEPrussian domain administrator (1787-1840)
- Werner von Siemensb. 1816DEGerman electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist (1816–1892)
- Carl Wilhelm Siemensb. 1823DEengineer and inventor (1823–1883)
- Carl Heinrich von Siemensb. 1829DEhuman, 1829-1906, brother of Werner
- Georg von Siemensb. 1839DEGerman lawyer, banker and politician (NLP, DFP, FSV), Member of the Reichstag (1839–1901)
- Arnold von Siemensb. 1853DEGerman businessman (1853-1918)
- Georg Wilhelm von Siemensb. 1855DEGerman businessman (1855–1919)
- Carl Friedrich von Siemensb. 1872DEGerman businessman (1872-1941)
- Ernst von Siemensb. 1903DEGerman businessman (1903–1990)
- George Siemensb. 1970CACanadian academic
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,300 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,087 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,136 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 227 | #9,170 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Siemens mean, and where does it come from?
- In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical conductance; the electric conductance in a body that has a resistance of one ohm. Symbol: S Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Siemens?
- A machine transcription gives /siːmənz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Siemens have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Siemens in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siemens.
- How common is the name Siemens?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,636 people named Siemens in 2010, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Siemens?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/siemensThe 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, “Siemens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.