Altmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Germ. Rufname Altmann or byname mhd (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/altmɐ̃n/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Altmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 5.2K
- LILiechtenstein≈1 in 5.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Altmann
- Portuguese:/altmɐ̃n/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Germ. Rufname Altmann or byname mhd. altman, mnd. oltman ‘old, experienced man’; also ‘old settler’. 8 types/6286 tokens. Plate shows a/o alternation in Alt-/Olt- before ld, lt.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Altmann is found
(measured from records)Altmann 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 | #420 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Altmann | 166 |
| AT Austria | #517 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Altmann | 71 |
| US United States | — | 1,116 | 1 in 298K | 1.1K | Altmann | 219 |
| BR Brazil | — | 839 | 1 in 252K | 839 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Altmann | 83 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 357 | 1 in 24K | 357 | Altmann | 36 |
| NO Norway | — | 160 | 1 in 34K | 160 | — | 11 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 9 | — | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (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)Altmann 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, Patronym from a personal name with vowel variants a/o and ä/ö; plate shows monophthong variation. Bearer count: 6201 tokens; largest circle of Altmann: PLZ 934, 206 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Plate on vowel variation in Alt-/Olt- forms and -wald names.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname zu ahd. al(da) 'alt' + man(n); belegt mit 6286 Trägern. Die Karte zeigt a-Varianten im Haupttonvokalismus.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname zu alt/Alter Mann; die Karte zeigt Tonvokal-Variation a/o bzw. mit Vokalvokalisierung auch ou/oue in Alt-/wald-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, zu ahd. alt, altsächs. ald ‚alt‘; patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Alt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Richard Altmannb. 1852DEGerman pathologist (1852-1900)
- Wilhelm Altmannb. 1862DEGerman historian (1862–1951)
- Maria Altmannb. 1916ATFiled successful lawsuit against government of Austria for return of family artwork plundered by the Nazis (1916–2011)
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Altmann come from?
- From Germ. Rufname Altmann or byname mhd. altman, mnd. oltman ‘old, experienced man’; also ‘old settler’. 8 types/6286 tokens. Plate shows a/o alternation in Alt-/Olt- before ld, lt. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Altmann?
- In Portuguese /altmɐ̃n/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Altmann mean?
- Recorded meaning: From Germ. Rufname Altmann or byname mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Altmann?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Altmann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled altmann. After it come Austria, United States, Brazil and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Altmann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,116 people named Altmann in 2010, about 1 in 298 thousand residents.
- How common is Altmann compared with other names?
- In Germany, Altmann is the 420th 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/altmannThe 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, “Altmann” — the 420th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.