Wassermann
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Aquarius, Aquarian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vasɐman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wassermann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 18K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 91K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Only in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809. Wassermann -triedinger = Waterman US translation. Town of Place name from the Wassertrüdingen Bavaria). An American pronunciation.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wassermann is read(measured from records)
Wassermann is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German51%
Aquarius, Aquarian
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname 'Wasserträger/Schiffer'; auch Wohnstätten- oder Herkunftsname; zeigt ss/Water-Variation. 1458 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
- English27%
A surname from German, variant of Wasserman, equivalent to English Waterman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wassermann in French.
- Spanish6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Wassermann in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wassermann 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 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Wassermann | 108 |
| AT Austria | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Wassermann | 46 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 146K | — | Wassermann | 19 |
| US United States | 280 | 1 in 1.2M | 304 | Wassermann | 101 |
| FR France | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 389K | 30 | Wassermann | 88 |
| CH Switzerland | 92 | 1 in 91K | 92 | Wassermann | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 22 | 1 in 267K | 22 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Wassermann 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.
Only in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809. Wassermann -triedinger = Waterman US translation. Town of Place name from the Wassertrüdingen Bavaria). An American pronunciation.
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
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)
- Heinrich Joseph Wassermannb. 1791CHSwiss composer (1791-1838)
- August von Wassermannb. 1866DEGerman bacteriologist (1866-1925)
- Jakob Wassermannb. 1873DEGerman writer (1873-1934)
- Walter Wassermannb. 1883DEGerman actor, film director and screenwriter (1883-1944)
- Lyubov Wassermanb. 1907PLnot in their usual nameSoviet poet (1907-1975)
- Harry Herschal Wassermanb. 1920USnot in their usual nameAmerican organic chemistry professor
- Zbigniew Wassermannb. 1949PLPolish politician (1949-2010)
- Małgorzata Wassermannb. 1978PLPolish politician and deputy
- Ehren Wassermannb. 1980USAmerican baseball player
- Pax WassermannAmerican editor and 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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 304 | #69,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 280 | #69,996 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 247 | #73,154 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 92 | #11,837 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 30 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 24 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 22 | #21,340 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 20 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Wassermann come from?
- Only in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809. Wassermann -triedinger = Waterman US translation. Town of Place name from the Wassertrüdingen Bavaria). An American pronunciation. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Wassermann?
- A machine transcription gives /vasɐman/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Wassermann mean?
- In German, Aquarius, Aquarian
- What are other forms of the name Wassermann?
- In the etymology graph, Waterman is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wassermann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Wassermann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wassermann.
- How common is the name Wassermann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 280 people named Wassermann in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Wassermann?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wassermannThe 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, “Wassermann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.