Bachmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: New name instead of Simon, in the district of Under Rhine 1809, at Gochsheim, Flehingen and Ittlingen
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/baxman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bachmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 37th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 781(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.2K
- ATAustria≈1 in 6.5K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- 1 in 781 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
New name instead of Simon, in the district of Under Rhine 1809, at Gochsheim, Flehingen and Ittlingen.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bachmann 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 | #169 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Bachmann | 183 |
| CH Switzerland | #37 | 10,754 | 1 in 781 | 11K | Bachmann | 107 |
| US United States | — | 4,372 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Bachmann | 234 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,549 | 1 in 137K | 1.5K | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | #394 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Bachmann | 88 |
| DK Denmark | #715 | 631 | 1 in 9.3K | 631 | Bachmann | 69 |
| NO Norway | — | 304 | 1 in 18K | 304 | Bachmann | 23 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Bachmann 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, Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling feature by a brook; from mhd. bach, mnd. beke 'Bach, brook'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a place or dwelling near a stream/brook; bearer count 11,920.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname zu mhd. bach, mnd. beke 'Bach'; Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname am oder nach einem Bach. Belegt: Bachmann 10431+142, Bochmann 1023+93, Bahmann 231.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: wohl zu Bach 'Gewässer, Bach'; Konkurrenz durch HerkunftsN zum SiedlungsN Bekum (Kreis Peine).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Herkunftsname zu mhd. bach 'Bach', also Wohnstättenname bei einem Bach; Varianten mit P wie Pachmann.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)
- Karl Josef Anton Leodegar von Bachmannb. 1734CHSwiss aristocrat and soldier
- Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmannb. 1837DEGerman mathematician (1837–1920)
- Ingeborg Bachmannb. 1926ATAustrian poet and author (1926–1973)
- Michele Bachmannb. 1956USAmerican politician (born 1956)
- Þorsteinn Bachmannb. 1965ISIcelandic actor
- Lutz Bachmannb. 1973DEGerman political activist; founder of Pegida
- Tina Bachmannb. 1978DEGerman field hockey player
- Ramona Bachmannb. 1990CHSwiss footballer
- Daniel Bachmannb. 1994ATAustrian association football player
- Janik Bachmannb. 1996DEGerman 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)
Attested in 38 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11K | #26 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.8K | #8,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,457 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,165 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 631 | #667 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 304 | #5,044 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Bachmann mean, and where does it come from?
- New name instead of Simon, in the district of Under Rhine 1809, at Gochsheim, Flehingen and Ittlingen. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Bachmann?
- A machine transcription gives /baxman/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Bachmann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Bachmann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bachmann.
- Where is Bachmann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bachmann is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 781 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bachmann?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10,754 people named Bachmann in 2024, about 1 in 781 residents.
- How common is Bachmann compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bachmann is the 169th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Bachmann” — the 169th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.