Blume
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish blum ‘flower’, or ‘flower gardener’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɫum/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blume is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 57K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 81K
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
- 325 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish blum ‘flower’, or ‘flower gardener’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
How Blume is read(measured from records)
Blume 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.
- English62%
An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish blum ‘flower’, or ‘flower gardener’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German22%
From MHG bluome ‘flower’; plate shows long /uː/ marked by -e/-h. Bearer counts: Blume 4232, Blum 9509, Bluhm 1866.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
flower
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
flower, blossom (colorful, conspicuous reproductive structure(s) of an angiosperm)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Vermutlich zu mhd. blüemen/blūmen ‘blühen’; die Karte zeigt Längenschreibung und Vokalvarianten wie Blume, Blöme/Blome, Bluhm, Blum, Blüm- und Plum-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Aus mhd. bluome 'Blume'; zeigt u/uh zur Längenanzeige. Bearer counts: Blume 4232, Blum 9509, Bluhme 72, Bluhm 1866.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)
Blume 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 | #497 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Blume | 148 |
| US United States | — | 5,826 | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Blume | 325 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,295 | 1 in 163K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Blume | 71 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Blume | 3 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Blume | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | 187 | 1 in 31K | 187 | Blume | 56 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Blume | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carl Ludwig Blumeb. 1796NLGerman-Dutch botanist (1796–1862)
- Friedrich Blumeb. 1893DEGerman musicologist (1893–1975)
- Walter Blumeb. 1906DEEinsatzgruppen SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1906-1974)
- Peter Blumeb. 1906USAmerican artist (1906-1992)
- Judy Blumeb. 1938USAmerican children's writer (born 1938)
- Oliver Blumeb. 1968DEGerman businessman
- Markus Blumeb. 1975DEGerman politician
- Kollegahb. 1984DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
- Thaïs Blumeb. 1984ESSpanish actress
- Pernille Blumeb. 1994DKDanish swimmer
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.8K | #5,914 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.7K | #5,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.4K | #6,056 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,309 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 187 | #2,732 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Blume mean, and where does it come from?
- An invented Jewish name based on Yiddish blum ‘flower’, or ‘flower gardener’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- What are other forms of the name Blume?
- In the etymology graph, Blatt is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Blume?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɫum/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Blume have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Blume in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blume.
- How common is the name Blume?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,826 people named Blume in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Blume compared with other names?
- In Germany, Blume is the 497th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blumeThe 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, “Blume” — the 497th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.