Šuman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: noisy (causing great or characteristic noise, usually of a water stream)
/ʃûːman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Šuman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 22K
- INIndia1 in 153K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Šuman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
9,043 named Shuman, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Schumann in US United States and Suman in IN India.
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)
noisy (causing great or characteristic noise, usually of a water stream)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Šuman 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 | 9,043as Shuman | 1 in 37K | 9K | Schumann | 21 |
| IN India | 8,679 | 1 in 153K | 8.7K | Suman | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 2,528as Schumann | 1 in 84K | 2.5K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 348as Schumann | 1 in 24K | 348 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 272as Schumann | 1 in 20K | 272 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Šuman | 9 |
| HR Croatia | 189 | 1 in 22K | 189 | Šuman | 25 |
| GY Guyana | 49as Shuman | 1 in 15K | 49 | — | — |
9,043 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling shuman. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Josip Šumanb. 1836SISlovene linguist and activist (1836-1908)
- Vladimír Šumanb. 1936CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (1992–1996) and member of Czech National Council
- Filip Šumanb. 1974CZCzech lawyer
- Stribor Sumanb. 2002HRCroatian speed skater
- Nataša ŠumanSIresearcher
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 189 | #4,395 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 169 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Šuman mean, and where does it come from?
- noisy (causing great or characteristic noise, usually of a water stream) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Šuman?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃûːman/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Šuman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Shuman, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Šuman?
- In India, the national register counted 8,679 people named Šuman, about 1 in 153 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1umanThe 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, “Šuman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.