Aleman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Miguel, president. Mexico; Mateo,
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aleman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aleman 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.
- 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 366 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)
22,927 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nicaragua, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Miguel, president. Mexico; Mateo,
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aleman 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 | — | 22,927 | 1 in 15K | 25K | Aleman | 366 |
| NI Nicaragua | #40 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 316 | — | Aleman | 43 |
| HN Honduras | #99 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 718 | — | Aleman | 45 |
| ES Spain | #521 | 9,015 | 1 in 5.5K | 24K | Aleman | 132 |
| SV El Salvador | #144 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 759 | — | Aleman | 50 |
| CR Costa Rica | #149 | 7,120 | 1 in 716 | 7.1K | Aleman | 41 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 2,667 | 1 in 1.3K | 2.7K | — | 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Aleman is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Spanish writer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Filipino, German (inhabitant of Germany or person from German descent)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, d’ici
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Louis Alemanb. 1390FRCatholic cardinal
- Oscar Alemanb. 1879SESwedish physician
- Consuelo Villalon Alemanb. 1907MXMexican musician
- José Miguel Alemánb. 1956PApolitician
- Andreas Alemanb. 1975SESwedish musician
- André Alemanb. 1975NLDutch neuroscientist
- Nauzet Alemánb. 1985ESSpanish footballer
- Juan Pablo Adameb. 1985MXnot in their usual nameMexican politician
- Keven Alemánb. 1994CRCanadian footballer
- Christian Alemánb. 1996ECEcuadorian 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 35 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 23K | #1,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 23K | #1,571 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 16K | #2,029 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 9K | #623 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9K | #623 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 7.1K | #211 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 2.7K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Aleman mean, and where does it come from?
- Miguel, president. Mexico; Mateo, Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Aleman?
- A machine transcription gives /aleman/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Aleman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Aleman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled aleman.
- How common is the name Aleman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 22,927 people named Aleman in 2010, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Aleman compared with other names?
- In Nicaragua, Aleman is the 40th most common surname of 5,756 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/alemanThe 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, “Aleman” — the 40th most common surname in Nicaragua. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.