Baumgärtner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Baumgärtner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Switzerland it is the 22nd most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 776(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.1K
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.2K
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)
- Record sources
- 349 (measured from records)
- 1 in 776 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baumgartner in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 3 more.
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)Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner. Verbreitung des Typs mit a und ä nach PLZ-Karten.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Baumgärtner 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 | #225 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Baumgartner | 166 |
| US United States | — | 11,448 | 1 in 29K | 11K | Baumgartner | 349 |
| CH Switzerland | #22 | 10,827 | 1 in 776 | 11K | Baumgartner | 121 |
| AT Austria | #25 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Baumgartner | 130 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Baumgartner | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 78 | 1 in 27K | 78 | — | 3 |
| BZ Belize | #31 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Baumgartner | 2 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Baumgärtner is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu Baumgarten/Baumgartner; Belege 3561. Die Karte zeigt Haupttonvokalismus mit a/ä/e-Variation.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Umlautvariante zu Baumgartner aus mhd. boumgarte; zeigt die regionale Varianz a/ä/e vor -er. 3561 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname: Obst-/Gemüsegärtner.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Albrecht Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1743DEGerman historian
- Adam Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtnerb. 1759DEGerman lawyer, bookseller and writer (1759-1843)
- Karl Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1798DEGerman physician (1798–1886)
- Georg August Baumgärtnerb. 1869DEGerman contributing editor and writer
- Willy Baumgärtnerb. 1890DEGerman footballer (1890-1953)
- Fritz Baumgärtnerb. 1897DEGerman politician (1897-1957)
- Alfred Clemens Baumgärtnerb. 1928DEGerman specialist in literature and author of youth literature
- Jürgen Baumgärtnerb. 1973DEGerman politician
- Lisa Baumgärtnerb. 1987DEGerman badminton player
- Alexej Baumgärtnerb. 1988DEGerman speed skater
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 181 | #6,817 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Baumgärtner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner.
- In which country does Baumgärtner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Baumgärtner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baumgartner.
- Where is Baumgärtner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baumgärtner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 776 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Baumgärtner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,448 people named Baumgärtner in 2010, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Baumgärtner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Baumgärtner is the 225th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baumg%C3%A4rtnerThe 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, “Baumgärtner” — the 225th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.