Gherman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: obsolete form of german
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gherman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 3.4K
- MDMoldova≈1 in 4.5K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
obsolete form of german
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gherman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #856 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Gherman | 48 |
| MD Moldova | #405 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 524 | Gherman | 10 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 2 | Gherman | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 366 | 1 in 137K | 366 | Gherman | 18 |
| US United States | — | 224 | 1 in 1.5M | 482 | Gherman | 148 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Gherman | 21 |
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; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
Gherman 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 rup, German (a person of German descent)
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)
- Vasile Gherman Popb. 1850ROhistorian
- Sholom Ghermanb. 1920RURussian philosopher
- Oliviu Ghermanb. 1930RORomanian physicist, politician and diplomat (1930-2020)
- Marius Ghermanb. 1967ROgymnast
- Sabin Labermanb. 1968ROnot in their usual namejournalist
- Natalia Ghermanb. 1969MDpolitician from Moldova
- Alin Ghermanb. 1981ROBelgian composer
- Doina Ghermanb. 1982MDMoldovan politician
- Simona Ghermanb. 1985RORomanian épée fencer
- Vlad Ghermanb. 1993RORomanian actor
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 26 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 482 | #47,446 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 366 | #10,291 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 366 | #10,262 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 224 | #83,834 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 203 | #85,643 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Gherman mean, and where does it come from?
- obsolete form of german Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gherman have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Gherman in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gherman.
- How common is the name Gherman?
- In Spain, the national register counted 366 people named Gherman, about 1 in 137 thousand residents.
- How common is Gherman compared with other names?
- In Romania, Gherman is the 856th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ghermanThe 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, “Gherman” — the 856th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.