Šturm

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a strong wind

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

/ʃtûrm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Šturm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 19K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 19K

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)

9,242 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
13 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ŠturmLatin(measured from records)
ЩурмCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sturm in US United States, CH Switzerland.

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)

a strong wind

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Šturm 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.

Where Šturm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—9,2421 in 36K9.2KSturm11
BR Brazil—9411 in 225K941——
NL Netherlands—8891 in 19K889—3
SI Slovenia#3458101 in 2.6K810Šturm13
CH Switzerland—4481 in 19K448Sturm3
CZ Czechia—2571 in 42K257——

9,242 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Šturm is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sturm, Stürm, Stuerm, ชตัวร์ม, ชตวร์ม

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Sturm

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sturm, Stürm

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Guatemala

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sturm, Stürm

  • Swahili surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada

    Also written Sturm

  • Hungarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Estonia, Switzerland

    Languages: Hungarian, Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Sturm, Stürm

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
500100015002000Saint Sturm, b. 704Johannes Sturm, b. 1507Jacques Charles François Sturm, b. 1803Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm, b. 1841Pavle Jurišić Šturm, b. 1848Victoria Sturm, b. 1973Felix Sturm, b. 1979Yfke Sturm, b. 1981Anna Maria Sturm, b. 1982

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)
FormalPoštovani Šturm,Dear Šturm, (English)
InformalPoštovani Šturm,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Šturm
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—810#245
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—257#6,526

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Šturm mean, and where does it come from?
a strong wind Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Šturm?
A machine transcription gives /ʃtûrm/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Šturm have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Šturm, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sturm.
Where is Šturm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Šturm is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Šturm?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,242 people named Šturm in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
How common is Šturm compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Šturm is the 345th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1turm

The 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, “Šturm” — the 345th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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