Bühlmann
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Bühlmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 72K
- SESweden1 in 292K
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 Bühlmann itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,926 people, 2024
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)Locally spelled Buhlmann in CH Switzerland, DE Germany, US United States and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bühlmann 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #157 | 3,926 | 1 in 2.1K | 3.9K | Buhlmann | 47 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Buhlmann | 79 |
| US United States | — | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 115 | Buhlmann | 76 |
| FR France | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 728K | 13 | Buhlmann | 82 |
| EC Ecuador | — | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 360K | 1 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 35 | 1 in 292K | 35 | Bühlmann | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 14 | 1 in 419K | 14 | — | — |
3,926 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling bühlmann. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)- Josef Bühlmannb. 1844CHSwiss architect (1844-1921)
- Fritz Bühlmannb. 1848CHSwiss politician (1848-1936)
- Fritz Bühlmannb. 1874DEGerman architect (1874-1956)
- Albert Bühlmannb. 1923CHSwiss physician and decompression researcher (1923-1994)
- Paul Bühlmannb. 1927CHSwiss actor (1927-2000)
- Cécile Bühlmannb. 1949CHSwiss politician
- Peter Bühlmannb. 1965CHSwiss mathematical statistician
- Patrick Bühlmannb. 1971CHSwiss association football player
- Sarah Spaleb. 1980CHnot in their usual nameSwiss film actor
- Jan Bühlmannb. 1987CHSwiss model
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3.9K | #160 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #16,671 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #39,083 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Bühlmann have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Bühlmann, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buhlmann.
- Where is Bühlmann most common?
- Bühlmann is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bühlmann?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3,926 people named Bühlmann in 2024, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bühlmann compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bühlmann is the 157th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bühlmann?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%BChlmannThe 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, “Bühlmann” — the 157th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.