Dörsam
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nicht Berufsname zu -samen, sondern Herkunftsname zu Dorsheim bei Bad Kreuznach (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Dörsam is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 87K(inferred from the name graph)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 425K
- PLPoland1 in 13M
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 Dörsam 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 87K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 named Doersam, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dörsam in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Doersam in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 2 more and Dorsam in CR Costa Rica.
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)Nicht Berufsname zu -samen, sondern Herkunftsname zu Dorsheim bei Bad Kreuznach. Bearer counts: 413+22.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dörsam is found
(measured from records)Dörsam 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Doersam | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Dörsam | 48 |
| US United States | 287as Doersam | 1 in 1.2M | 296 | Doersam | 99 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 796K | — | Doersam | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Doersam | 8 |
| CR Costa Rica | 12 | 1 in 425K | 12 | Dorsam | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 721K | — | Doersam | 3 |
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 2020; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)- Adax Dörsamb. 1955DEGerman composer
- Matthias Dörsamb. 1960DEGerman saxophonist
- Peter Dörsamb. 1966DEGerman physicist, mathematician and publisher
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dörsam mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nicht Berufsname zu -samen, sondern Herkunftsname zu Dorsheim bei Bad Kreuznach.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dörsam?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Doersam in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Germany, United States, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dörsam?
- In Costa Rica, the national register counted 12 people named Dörsam, about 1 in 425 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%B6rsamThe 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, “Dörsam”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.