Lämke
surname · Latin script
Lämke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from North German Lamke.
- USUnited States1 in 577K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 186K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 249K
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)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
576 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lamke in US United States, DE Germany, CO Colombia and 5 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from North German Lamke.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lämke 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 | 576 | 1 in 577K | 576 | Lamke | 155 |
| CO Colombia | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Lamke | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 577K | listed | Lamke | 32 |
| BR Brazil | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Lamke | 4 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Lamke | 1 |
| RS Serbia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Lamke | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 249K | — | Lamke | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Lamke | 1 |
576 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; the dfa-band-2 register. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Lämke mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from North German Lamke. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Lämke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 576 people named Lämke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lamke.
- How common is the name Lämke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 576 people named Lämke in 2010, about 1 in 577 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%A4mkeThe 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, “Lämke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.