Perlman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A different form of Perelman
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɝlmæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Perlman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 91K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 4.5Kas פרלמן
- CACanada≈1 in 84Kas Pearlman
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 Perlman 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- 1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)
3,653 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled פרלמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more, Pearlman in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and Перельман in BY Belarus.
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)
A different form of Perelman.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perlman 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 | — | 3,653 | 1 in 91K | 3.7K | Pearlman | 328 |
| IL Israel | #469 | 1,935as פרלמן | 1 in 4.5K | 1.9K | פרלמן | 34 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | פרלמן | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 94K | 275 | Pearlman | 92 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Pearlman | 66 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | פרלמן | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Перельман | 7 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | פרלמן | 3 |
3,653 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling perlman. 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Perlman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Rhea, US actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Nathan David Perlmanb. 1887USAmerican politician (1887-1952)
- Selig Perlmanb. 1888USAmerican historian and economist
- Philip Perlmanb. 1890USAmerican lawyer (1890-1960)
- David Perlmanb. 1918USAmerican science journalist (1918–2020)
- Itzhak Perlmanb. 1945ILIsraeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)
- Ron Perlmanb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Radia Perlmanb. 1951USAmerican software designer and network engineer (born 1951)
- Janet Perlmanb. 1954CACanadian animator, animation teacher, and author
- Blake Perlmanb. 1984USAmerican television, film and voice actress
- Brandon Perlmanb. 1990USAmerican electronic music producer
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,302 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.7K | #8,962 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,963 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 63 | #44,121 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Perlman mean, and where does it come from?
- A different form of Perelman. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Perlman?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɝlmæn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Perlman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Perlman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pearlman.
- Where is Perlman most common?
- Perlman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Perlman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,653 people named Perlman in 2010, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.
- How common is Perlman compared with other names?
- In Israel, Perlman is the 469th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perlmanThe 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, “Perlman” — the 469th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.