Bohm

Name: Bohm: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: German surname type showing o/au vowel variation; 1192 tokens

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

/bum/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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Bohm is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname.

DEGermany≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
ATAustria≈1 in 3.5K
CZCzechia1 in 6.4K

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 Bohm 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)
Record sources: 385 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

BoehmLatin

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Böhm

Locally spelled Boehm in US United States, CH Switzerland, ID Indonesia and Böhm in DE Germany, 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

German surname type showing o/au vowel variation; 1192 tokens.

Cited for this meaning 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Bohm 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.

Where Bohm is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	#64	≈36,000 est.	≈1 in 2.2K	listed	Böhm	177
US United States	—	10,730as Boehm	1 in 31K	11K	Boehm	385
ID Indonesia	—	≈2,700 est.	≈1 in 99K	—	Boehm	12
AT Austria	#69	≈2,500 est.	≈1 in 3.5K	—	Böhm	72
CZ Czechia	—	1,672	1 in 6.4K	1.7K	—	1
SE Sweden	—	720	1 in 14K	720	Bohm	33
CH Switzerland	—	711	1 in 12K	711	Boehm	34

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; MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

Bohm is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Czech surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States
Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak
Also written Böhm, Bőhm, Bóhm
Portuguese surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Chile
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Böhm, Bôhm, Bőhm
a separate name7 spellings in the group
Also written Bőhm, Bóhm, Bõhm, Bòhm, Böhm
Finnish surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, United States
Languages: Finnish, Estonian
Also written Böhm, Bõhm
Swedish surname9 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Netherlands
Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
Also written Böhm
Croatian surname12 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian
Also written Böhm, Bõhm, Bőhm

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

Bohm is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Nd. Form zu Baum/Boom; die Karte zeigt die Verhochdeutschung des nd. Vokals o/oo gegenüber au. 1,192 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, deutscher Familienname, Schreibvariante zu Baum mit o statt au; zeigt au→o-Vokalwechsel, 6 104 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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

Carl Bohmb. 1844DEGerman composer (1844–1920)
Max Bohmb. 1868USAmerican artist (1868-1923)
David Bohmb. 1917USAmerican theoretical physicist (1917-1992)
Dorothy Bohmb. 1924GBBritish photographer (1924–2023)
Hark Bohmb. 1939DEGerman actor, screenwriter, film director, playwright and former professor for cinema studies
Marquard Bohmb. 1941DEGerman actor (1941–2006)
Carles Gasòlibab. 1945ESnot in their usual nameSpanish politician and economist
Uwe Bohmb. 1962DEGerman actor (1962–2022)
Karl Bohmb. 1995SESwedish association football player
Alec Bohmb. 1996USAmerican professional baseball 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

FormalDear Bohm,

InformalHello,

Evidence

35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Bohm
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	2.4K	#12,724
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	2.4K	#12,301
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	2.3K	#12,266
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	720	#1,358
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	39	#22,536
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	1	#269,030
CZ Czechia	KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)	—	1	#25,613
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 7

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikipedia surname tokens
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
Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bohm mean, and where does it come from?: German surname type showing o/au vowel variation; 1192 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
How do you pronounce Bohm?: In Portuguese /bum/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Bohm have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Bohm in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böhm.
How common is the name Bohm?: In Czechia, the national register counted 1,672 people named Bohm, about 1 in 6.4 thousand residents.
How common is Bohm compared with other names?: In Germany, Bohm is the 64th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Bohm” — the 64th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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