Alemañ

surname · Latin script

Alemañ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nicaragua it is the 40th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 316(inferred from the name graph)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 716
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 718

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.

United States (measured from records)

22,927 people, 2010

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
366 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AlemañLatin(measured from records)
เยอรมันThai(measured from records)
АлеманCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aleman in US United States, NI Nicaragua, SV El Salvador and 3 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Alemañ 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 Alemañ is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—22,9271 in 15K25KAleman366
NI Nicaragua#40≈20,000 est.≈1 in 316—Aleman43
HN Honduras#99≈13,000 est.≈1 in 718—Aleman45
ES Spain#5219,0151 in 5.5K24KAleman132
SV El Salvador#144≈8,500 est.≈1 in 759—Aleman50
CR Costa Rica#1497,1201 in 7167.1KAleman41
UY Uruguay—2,6671 in 1.3K2.7K—31

22,927 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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Alemañ is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Alemàn, Alemǻn, Aléman, Aleman, Alemán

12 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Alemañ
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—533#7,586
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—533#7,583

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Alemañ have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Alemañ, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aleman.
How common is the name Alemañ?
In the United States, the national register counted 22,927 people named Alemañ in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
How common is Alemañ compared with other names?
In Nicaragua, Alemañ is the 40th most common surname of 5,756 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, “Alemañ” — the 40th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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