Türmer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupation: tower keeper/watchman
Türmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 722K(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.9M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Türmer 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 722K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Turmer in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 1 more and Tuermer in AT Austria.
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)
occupation: tower keeper/watchman
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Türmer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 722K | listed | Türmer | 28 |
| US United States | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 133 | Turmer | 46 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Turmer | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Tuermer | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | 17 | Turmer | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Turmer | 4 |
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 2000; the dfa-band-4 register; 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philipp Türmerb. 1996DEGerman politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
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 Türmer mean, and where does it come from?
- occupation: tower keeper/watchman Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What are other forms of the name Türmer?
- In the etymology graph, Turm is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Türmer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 111 people named Türmer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled türmer.
- How common is the name Türmer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in Germany have Türmer as their first surname, about 1 in 722 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/t%C3%BCrmerThe 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, “Türmer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.