Böhmer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Böhmen 'Bohemia'; also nd

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

Böhmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 125Kas Boehmer
  • NLNetherlands1 in 41K

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 Böhmer 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈7,700 named Boehmer, est.

Sources
255 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BoehmerLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boehmer in US United States, CD Congo - Kinshasa, CN China, Bohmer in NL Netherlands, ZA South Africa and Bøhmer in NO Norway.

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)

from Böhmen 'Bohemia'; also nd. 'tree' sense

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Böhmer 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 Böhmer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈7,700 est.≈1 in 182K—Boehmer3
CD Congo - Kinshasa#658≈7,000 est.≈1 in 14K—Boehmer1
DE Germany#664≈7,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Böhmer100
US United States—2,663as Boehmer1 in 125K2.7KBoehmer255
ZA South Africa—≈440 est.≈1 in 128K—Bohmer18
NL Netherlands—4171 in 41K417Bohmer30
NO Norway—400as Bøhmer1 in 14K400Bøhmer7
AT Austria—≈180 est.≈1 in 50K—Böhmer20

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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

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

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bohmer, Bóhmer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bohmer

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Bohmer, Bőhmer

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Netherlands

    Also written Bohmer

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written Bohmer

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Netherlands

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Bohmer

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Böhmer 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 German, Je nach Region zu Baum oder als Herkunftsname 'aus Böhmen'; zeigt ö/eh/e-Varianten.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Baum-Name mit ö-Umlaut; belegt die ö/oe-Varianz gegenüber o-Formen. 5206 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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)

1700180019002000Johann Samuel Friedrich von Böhmer, b. 1704Philipp Adolph Böhmer, b. 1717Georg Rudolf Boehmer, b. 1723Johann Friedrich Böhmer, b. 1795Kurt Böhmer, b. 1892Gunter Böhmer, b. 1911Wolfgang Böhmer, b. 1936Joachim Böhmer, b. 1940Ben Böhmer, b. 1994Irmgard Böhmer, b. 2000

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Böhmer, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Böhmer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007417#4,807

Reference works 3

  • 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

Where does the name Böhmer come from?
from Böhmen 'Bohemia'; also nd. 'tree' sense Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Böhmer?
A machine transcription gives /bøːmɐ/ (IPA) for German.
What does the name Böhmer mean?
Recorded meaning: from Böhmen 'Bohemia'; also nd.
In which country does Böhmer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Boehmer in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Böhmer?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 417 people named Böhmer in 2007, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
How common is Böhmer compared with other names?
In Congo - Kinshasa, Böhmer is the 658th most common surname of 44,726 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, “Böhmer” — the 658th most common surname in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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