Asmus
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname originating as a patronymic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/asmus/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Asmus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 20Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 23K
- NLNetherlands1 in 105K
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
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Antigua & Barbuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A surname originating as a patronymic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Asmus is read
(measured from records)Asmus 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.
- English63%
A surname originating as a patronymic.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German17%
männl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Spanish7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Asmus 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Asmus is found
(measured from records)Asmus 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 | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Asmus | 111 |
| US United States | — | 1,994 | 1 in 167K | 2K | Asmus | 249 |
| FR France | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 245K | 84 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 258K | — | Asmus | 25 |
| AR Argentina | — | 228 | 1 in 199K | 228 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 164 | 1 in 105K | 164 | Asmus | 16 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Asmus | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 13 | — | 3 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #968 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Asmus | 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)Asmus 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 prg, eighth
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)- Valentin Asmusb. 1894UARussian philosopher
- James Asmusb. 1967American comedian and writer
- Kristina Asmusb. 1988RURussian actress
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Asmus mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname originating as a patronymic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Asmus?
- In Spanish /asmus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Asmus?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Asmus in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled asmus. After it come United States, France, United Kingdom and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Asmus?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,994 people named Asmus in 2010, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Asmus compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Asmus is the 968th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Asmus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/asmusThe 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, “Asmus” — the 968th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.