Flume
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Flume is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden≈1 in 714K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 828K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.1M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 714K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Flumé in SE Sweden.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flume 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Flume | 117 |
| DE Germany | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 828K | — | Flume | 35 |
| IT Italy | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | — | Flume | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | — | Flume | 6 |
| SE Sweden | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 714K | — | Flumé | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Flume | 5 |
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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Flume is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Portuguese, river
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Helmut Flumeb. 1905DEGerman classical philologist
- Werner Flumeb. 1908DEGerman jurist (1908–2009)
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Flume mean, and where does it come from?
- A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Flume have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 109 people named Flume in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flume.
- How common is the name Flume?
- Mondonomo estimates about 110 people in the United States have Flume as their first surname, about 1 in 3.1 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flumeThe 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, “Flume”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.