Flemming
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place name; variant form cluster on Fleming/Flemmig
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈfɫɛmɪŋ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Flemming is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 53K(measured from records)
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 417
- GDGrenada1 in 3.1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 357 (measured from records)
- 1 in 417 (inferred from the name graph)
6,234 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname from a place name; variant form cluster on Fleming/Flemmig.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flemming 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 | 6,234 | 1 in 53K | 6.2K | Flemming | 357 |
| FI Finland | 238 | 1 in 23K | 238 | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 192 | 1 in 1.1M | 192 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 172 | 1 in 223K | 90 | Flemming | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | 129 | 1 in 417 | 129 | — | 10 |
| GD Grenada | 37 | 1 in 3.1K | 37 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 29 | 1 in 26K | 29 | — | 3 |
6,234 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Flemming is also recorded in 4 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/region name; bearer counts: 8, 24, 19, 16.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Herkunftsname zu Flame/Flandern; vgl. Ort Flemmingen bei Naumburg. Bearer count: 2216.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, in den i97oer-Jahren entlehnter männl. Vom. (norweg., dän. Flemming, schwed. Fleming »Flame«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Danish: from a medieval byname, originally an ethnic byname for someone from Flanders. This is now one of the most common of all Danish male given names.
as a word
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)
- Jacob Heinrich von Flemmingb. 1667PLGerman general (1667-1728)
- Walther Flemmingb. 1843DEGerman biologist (1843–1905)
- Arthur Flemmingb. 1905USAmerican academic and politician (1905-1996)
- Marilies Flemmingb. 1933ATAustrian politician (1933–2023)
- Jane Flemmingb. 1965AUAustralian heptathlete, hurdler and long jumper
- Brian Flemmingb. 1966USfilm director, atheist activist
- Catherine Flemmingb. 1967DEGerman actress
- Thomas Flemmingb. 1967DEEast German swimmer
- Peter Flemmingb. 1967CACanadian actor
- Zian Flemmingb. 1998NLDutch association football player
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 55 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.2K | #5,575 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.9K | #5,414 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 238 | #6,482 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 192 | #37,992 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 129 | #77 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 94 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 90 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 90 | #32,534 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 82 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 82 | #34,543 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 37 | #186 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Flemming mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place name; variant form cluster on Fleming/Flemmig. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Flemming?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɫɛmɪŋ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Flemming have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Flemming, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flemming.
- Where is Flemming most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Flemming is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 417 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Flemming?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,234 people named Flemming in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flemmingThe 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, “Flemming”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.