Derman

surname · Latin script

Meaning: vigour, strength

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/d̪eɾman̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Derman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 834K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 131K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 420K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

399 people, 2010

Sources
191 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 131K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

vigour, strength

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Derman 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.

Where Derman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3991 in 834K477Derman191
AR Argentina851 in 535K85—2
PL Poland471 in 815K24—1
SE Sweden211 in 486K21—11
CH Switzerland201 in 420K20—3
SI Slovenia161 in 131K16—3

399 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Derman is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Дерман

  • Bulgarian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Türkiye, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Дерман

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Derman is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kurdish, Medicine, remedy, hope

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In Kurdish, medicine (substance which promotes healing)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Albanian, remedy, cure; solution, way

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In crh, medicine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »lijek; izlaz, spas«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

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)

18501900195020002050Abraham Borisovich Derman, b. 1880Cyrus Derman, b. 1925Karl-Gustaf Derman, b. 1928David Derman, b. 1933Manfred de Graaf, b. 1939Aykut Derman, b. 1942Harriet E. Derman, b. 1943Emanuel Derman, b. 1946Mina Derman, b. 2002

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)

FormalSayın Derman Hanım,Dear Derman Hanım, (English)
InformalMerhaba Derman,Hi Derman, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Derman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000477#42,757
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020456#49,748
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010399#52,037
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—85—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202624—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#79,946
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202623—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—23#81,821
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21#24,791
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202420#36,564
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—16#15,345
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Derman mean, and where does it come from?
vigour, strength Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Derman?
A machine transcription gives /d̪eɾman̪/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Derman have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 399 people named Derman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled derman.
Where is Derman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Derman is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 131 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Derman?
In the United States, the national register counted 399 people named Derman in 2010, about 1 in 834 thousand residents.

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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, “Derman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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