Lembke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Atlas plate on mb/m(m) consonant variation; includes Lembke/Lemke
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Lembke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 35K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 143K
- DKDenmark1 in 173K
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 Lembke itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 8 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,207 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)Atlas plate on mb/m(m) consonant variation; includes Lembke/Lemke.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lembke 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.
1,207 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)Lembke 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 German, aus dem Rufnamen mit ahd. lant / altsächs. land 'Land'; patronymische Bildung
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname aus Kurzform zu Rufnamen mit Land- als erstem Glied, meist Landbert/-brecht; Diminutiv mit mb/mp-Assi milation; 1791 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Kurzform zu Lambert; dokumentiert die Assimilation mb > m im Silbenauslaut (Typ Lembke). Bearer count: 1815.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, patronymisch zu Rufname Lamm(e)/Lemme, mit k-Diminutivsuffix
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)- Johann Lembkeb. 1686DEGerman physician
- Paul Lembkeb. 1860DEGerman politician (1860-1939)
- Hans Lembkeb. 1885DEGerman painter (1885-1959)
- Robert Lembkeb. 1913DEGerman television presenter (1913-1989)
- Janet Lembkeb. 1933USAmerican author and translator (1933–2013)
- Heinz Lembkeb. 1937DEGerman right-wing extremist
- Jim Lembkeb. 1961USAmerican politician
- Katja Lembkeb. 1965DEGerman classical archaeologist and Egyptologist (born 1965)
- Gerald Lembkeb. 1966DEGerman business economist and author
- Anna Lembkeb. 1967USAmerican psychiatrist and opioid researcher
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,609 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,132 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 295 | #3,010 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 70 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #38,987 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 58 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 58 | #45,395 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 48 | #107,840 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 39 | #28,288 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34 | #14,766 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Lembke mean, and where does it come from?
- Atlas plate on mb/m(m) consonant variation; includes Lembke/Lemke. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- In which country does Lembke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Lembke, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lembke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lembke is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lembke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,207 people named Lembke in 2010, about 1 in 276 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lembke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lembkeThe 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, “Lembke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.