Gärtner

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Means gardener, in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809

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

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

Gärtner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 6.6K
  • CACanada≈1 in 35K

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 Gärtner 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

Sources
339 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gartner in US United States, CA Canada, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Gaertner in CH Switzerland, BZ Belize.

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)

Means gardener, in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809.

Sources 1

  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gärtner 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 Gärtner is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#136≈19,000 est.≈1 in 4.2KlistedGärtner135
US United States—5,6941 in 58K5.7KGartner339
AT Austria#197≈1,300 est.≈1 in 6.6K—Gartner75
CA Canada—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 35K—Gartner126
GB United Kingdom—≈810 est.≈1 in 82K—Gartner57
CH Switzerland—4261 in 20K426Gaertner17
SI Slovenia—3531 in 6K353—9
BZ Belize#973≈12 est.≈1 in 34K—Gaertner1

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; the dfa-band-1 register; 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)

Gärtner is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Gartner, Gãrtner, Garṭner

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gartner, Gârtner, Gártner

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Gartner, Gârtner, Гартнер

  • Danish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Gartner

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Gartner

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Norway

    Also written Gartner

21 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)

Gärtner 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 German, gardener

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

  • In German, Berufsname zu ‘Gärtner’; die Karte zeigt Tonvokal-Varianten im Stamm: a/e/ä/o, mit zahlreichen Schreib- und Flexionsformen; Belege u. a. mit Bearer-Zahlen in der Kartenlegende.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Berufsname zu mhd. gärtner 'Gärtner'; zeigt Monophthongvarianz a/ä/e. Belegt mit 1020 Gartner, 11148 Gärtner, 475 Gertner.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Berufsname 'Gärtner'; zeigt ä-Varianz, mit Schreibungen Gärt(t)ner, Gaertner, Gärtler. 11148 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, Berufsname: Gärtner.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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)

1700180019002000Christian Gärtner, b. 1705Joseph Gaertner, b. 1732Karl Friedrich von Gaertner, b. 1772Friedrich von Gärtner, b. 1791Georg Gärtner, b. 1920Hans Gärtner, b. 1934Claus Theo Gärtner, b. 1943Beat Gärtner, b. 1955Florian Gärtner, b. 1968Lars Gärtner, b. 1974

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Gärtner, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Gärtner
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024426#3,076
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———

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 Gärtner mean, and where does it come from?
Means gardener, in the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
How do you pronounce Gärtner?
A machine transcription gives /ɡɛʁtnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
What are other forms of the name Gärtner?
In the etymology graph, Garten is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gärtner have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Gärtner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gärtner.
How common is the name Gärtner?
In the United States, the national register counted 5,694 people named Gärtner in 2010, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
How common is Gärtner compared with other names?
In Germany, Gärtner is the 136th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gärtner” — the 136th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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