Bornemann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu 'Born/Quelle'; Bildung mit -mann als Bewohner-/Hofinhaber- bzw
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔʁnəman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bornemann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 90K
- ATAustria≈1 in 163K
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
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
zu 'Born/Quelle'; Bildung mit -mann als Bewohner-/Hofinhaber- bzw. Herkunftsbezeichnung.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bornemann 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 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Bornemann | 136 |
| US United States | 808 | 1 in 412K | 815 | Bornemann | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 533K | — | Bornemann | 13 |
| CA Canada | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Bornemann | 8 |
| EG Egypt | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Bornemann | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 65 | 1 in 90K | 65 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Bornemann | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | 30 | 1 in 280K | 30 | Bornemann | 20 |
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: the dfa-band-2 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bornemann 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, Herkunfts-/Wohnstättename mit -mann; Varianten mit r-Metathese, Umlaut und Lautwechsel. Bor(r)mann 3101+1778; Born(e)mann 474+2402; Bohrmann 577; Por(r)mann 15+155; Br(u/ü)nnemann 76+14; Bronnmann 19.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Wohnstättenname mit Suffix -mann zu Born ‚Quelle, Brunnen‘; -mann-Bildung der Herkunfts-/Wohnstättennamen. Bearer count: 8611.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Herkunfts- und Wohnstättenname zu Born(e) + -mann; bearbeitete Variante mit Konsonantenreduktion/-variation. Bearer count: 2876.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Otto Bornemannb. 1891DEGerman politician (1891-1972)
- Felix Bornemannb. 1894DEGerman politician (1894-1990)
- Fritz Bornemannb. 1912DEGerman architect (1912–2007)
- Ernest Bornemanb. 1915DEnot in their usual name(1915-1995) German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitator, jazz musician and critic
- Jutta Bornemannb. 1920ATAustrian actor, screenwriter and author (1920–1999)
- Frank Bornemannb. 1945DEGerman musician
- Elsa Bornemannb. 1952ARArgentine children's writer (1952-2013)
- Bernd Bornemannb. 1955DEGerman politician
- Dieter Bornemannb. 1967ATAustrian television presenter
- Folkmar Bornemannb. 1967DEGerman mathematician and university teacher
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 815 | #30,637 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 815 | #27,771 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 808 | #29,279 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 65 | #8,367 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Bornemann?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔʁnəman/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Bornemann mean?
- Recorded meaning: zu 'Born/Quelle'; Bildung mit -mann als Bewohner-/Hofinhaber- bzw.
- In which country does Bornemann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Bornemann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bornemann.
- How common is the name Bornemann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 808 people named Bornemann in 2010, about 1 in 412 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bornemannThe 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, “Bornemann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.