Bismarck
loc · Latin script
Meaning: also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/ˈbɪzmɑɹk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Bismarck is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Argentina.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bismarck counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | — | 2 | Bismarck | 19 |
| MX Mexico | — | 7 | Bismarck | 52 |
| BR Brazil | — | 848 | — | 66 |
| US United States | — | 420 | — | 118 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 109 | — | 16 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 53 | — | 11 |
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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)Bismarck is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Altmark in Magdeburg, recorded c. 1200 in the form Biscopesmark, from its situation on the boundary (see Mark 2) of a bishopric.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A dessert pastry:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, a German battleship during the Second World War, the sister ship to the Tirpitz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, A certain card game.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, pruski premijer (1862—1873, 1873—1890), osnivač i prvi kancelar Njemačkog Carstva (1871—1890); autokratski vladar, ujedinio Njemačku i diplomatskim akcijama joj osigurao prestižno mjesto u Europi
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Wilhelm von Bismarckb. 1852DEGerman politician (1852-1901)
- Georg von Bismarckb. 1891PLGerman General and Knight's Cross recipient (1891-1942)
- Bismarck Barreto Fariab. 1969BRBrazilian 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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bismarck mean, and where does it come from?
- also bourgeois name; clipped from Bischofsmark, ON Bismarck at the border of the bishopric of Verden Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bismarck?
- In English /ˈbɪzmɑɹk/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bismarck have the most bearers?
- Bismarck is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled bismarck.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bismarckThe 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, “Bismarck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.