Witman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈwɪtmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Witman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: see Whiteman . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- NLNetherlands1 in 109K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 138K
- USUnited States1 in 211K
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
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
1,577 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
see Whiteman . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Witman 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 | 1,577 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Witman | 22 |
| PL Poland | 277 | 1 in 138K | 151 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 158 | 1 in 109K | 158 | — | 2 |
| BE Belgium | 28 | 1 in 419K | 28 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 15 | 1 in 3M | 15 | Witman | 16 |
1,577 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)
Witman is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a hamlet in Hardenberg, Overijssel, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, A white man.
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)
- Jon Witmanb. 1972USAmerican 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 17 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,334 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,051 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 158 | #12,942 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 151 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 151 | #21,328 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 126 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 126 | #24,502 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 28 | #38,808 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Witman mean, and where does it come from?
- see Whiteman . Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Witman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɪtmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Witman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Witman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled witman.
- Where is Witman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Witman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Witman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,577 people named Witman in 2010, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Witman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/witmanThe 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, “Witman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.