Firman
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: word of God (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/fɪrman/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Firman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 50K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 130Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Firman
- Indonesian:/fɪrman/(machine-generated) model-generated
- English:/ˈfɜɹ.mən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Firman is read
(measured from records)Firman is one spelling over 2 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.
- Indonesian47%
word of God
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English38%
A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 the surname Firman is found
(measured from records)Firman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #365 | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Firman | 188 |
| US United States | — | 1,320 | 1 in 252K | 1.3K | Firman | 77 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Firman | 29 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Firman | 35 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Firman | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Firman | 11 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Firman | 21 |
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. 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)Firman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of firmar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, accusative singular of firma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of firma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of firma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Bert Firmanb. 1906GBBritish musician
- Ralph Firmanb. 1975IEIrish racecar driver
- Pete Firmanb. 1980GBBritish magician
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Firman come from?
- A royal decree issued by a sovereign in certain historical Islamic states, especially by the Sultan of Turkey. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Firman?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /fɪrman/; in English /ˈfɜɹ.mən/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Firman mean?
- In Indonesian, word of God
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Firman?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Firman in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled firman. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Firman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,320 people named Firman in 2010, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
- How common is Firman compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Firman is the 365th most common surname of 451,395 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Firman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/firmanThe 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, “Firman” — the 365th most common surname in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.