Hartman

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’ -l- man ‘man’

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

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

Hartman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 23rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 3K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 5.2K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 7K

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 Hartman 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈220,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
486 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

HartmanLatin(measured from records)
ฮาร์ทแมนThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hartmann in DE Germany, CH Switzerland.

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)

from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’ -l- man ‘man’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hartman 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 Hartman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈220,000 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Hartman11
DE Germany#23≈93,000 est.≈1 in 859listedHartmann257
US United States#39264,1061 in 5.2K64KHartman486
GB United Kingdom#671≈9,400 est.≈1 in 7KlistedHartman137
BR Brazil—6,878as Hartmann1 in 31K6.9K—7
NL Netherlands#1535,8531 in 3K5.9KHartman112
CH Switzerland#685,473as Hartmann1 in 1.5K5.5KHartmann106
DK Denmark—1,692as Hartmann1 in 3.5K1.7KHartman35
GY Guyana—2381 in 3.2K238—9

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-6 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Harṭman

  • Russian surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Гартман, Хартманн, Hartmann, Хартман, Gartman

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Netherlands

    Also written Harṭman

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Hartmań, Hartmàn

  • Greek surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

    Also written Hartmann, Χαρτμαν, Χάρτμαν

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Slovenia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Хартман

53 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)

Hartman is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, Respelling of German Hartmann. This name is also found in Slovenia and elsewhere in central Europe.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, A surname from Dutch of Dutch and Low German origin.

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

  • In German, from the Rufname Hartmann

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In Dutch, elaborated form of Hart.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

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)

1900195020002050Don Hartman, b. 1900Elizabeth Hartman, b. 1943Angélica María, b. 1944Phil Hartman, b. 1948Dan Hartman, b. 1950Lisa Hartman, b. 1956Nina Hartley, b. 1959Butch Hartman, b. 1965Angélica Vale, b. 1969Quilindschy Hartman, b. 2001

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)

FormalDear Hartman,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 48 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Hartman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201064K#524
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200064K#470
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202061K#542
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20075.9K#127
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,234
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025238#390
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—61#8,819
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202444#20,543
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 8

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 Hartman mean, and where does it come from?
from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘strong’ -l- man ‘man’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Hartman have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Hartman in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hartman.
Where is Hartman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hartman is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Hartman?
A machine transcription gives /hɑɹtmən/ (IPA) for English.
How common is the name Hartman?
In the United States, the national register counted 64,106 people named Hartman in 2010, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
How common is Hartman compared with other names?
In Germany, Hartman is the 23rd 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, “Hartman” — the 23rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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