Hartmann

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from a medieval German nickname for someone thought to resemble a stag; from a German personal name meaning literally 'strong man'; or an expanded form of Hart

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Hartmann 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
  • DEGermany≈1 in 859(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.5K
  • NLNetherlands1 in 3Kas Hartman

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 Hartmann 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 named Hartman, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
486 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 859 (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

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

Locally spelled Hartman in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NL Netherlands and 2 more.

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 medieval German nickname for someone thought to resemble a stag; from a German personal name meaning literally 'strong man'; or an expanded form of Hart

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

How Hartmann is read(measured from records)

Hartmann is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • German48%

    Aus dithematischen Rufnamen mit Zweitglied ahd., altsächs. man 'Mann' oder aus der Kurzform Harto/Herto + -mann; 40932 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    patronymisch zu Rufname Hartmann < germ. hard ‘hart, kühn’ + man ‘Mann’; 40932 Träger

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

    Familienname mit -mann; genit. -manns belegt. Morphologisches Muster: -mann/-manns. Bearer count: 62+40638 / 2+18.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • English32%

    from a medieval German nickname for someone thought to resemble a stag; from a German personal name meaning literally 'strong man'; or an expanded form of Hart

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • Portuguese5.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Hartmann in Portuguese.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hartmann 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 Hartmann 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#39264,106as Hartman1 in 5.2K64KHartman486
GB United Kingdom#671≈9,400 est.≈1 in 7KlistedHartman137
BR Brazil—6,8781 in 31K6.9K—7
NL Netherlands#1535,853as Hartman1 in 3K5.9KHartman112
CH Switzerland#685,4731 in 1.5K5.5KHartmann106
DK Denmark—1,6921 in 3.5K1.7KHartman35
GY Guyana—238as Hartman1 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)

Hartmann is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Spain, Chile

    Also written Hart-Mann

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Hartman-N, Hart-Mann

  • Russian surname22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Гартман, Hartman, Хартманн, Хартман, Gartman

65 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)

Hartmann is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In the district of Under Rhine, Baden 1809.

    as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

  • 2. German: from a Germanic compound personal name composed of the elements hard ‘hard’, ‘strong’ -I- man ‘man’.

    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)

18001850190019502000Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, b. 1805Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, b. 1842Johannes Franz Hartmann, b. 1865Sadakichi Hartmann, b. 1867Nicolai Hartmann, b. 1882Heinz Hartmann, b. 1894Karl Amadeus Hartmann, b. 1905Erich Hartmann, b. 1922William Kenneth Hartmann, b. 1939Moritz Hartmann, b. 1986

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 Hartmann, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 52 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Hartmann
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201011K#3,286
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202011K#3,218
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200011K#3,123
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.9K#1,757
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245.5K#94
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—1.7K#222
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007608#3,096
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520259#616
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 6———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 10

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 Hartmann mean, and where does it come from?
from a medieval German nickname for someone thought to resemble a stag; from a German personal name meaning literally 'strong man'; or an expanded form of Hart Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Hartmann?
In the etymology graph, Hardman and Erdmann are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Hartmann?
A machine transcription gives /haʁtman/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Hartmann have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 215 thousand people named Hartman in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Hartmann?
In Brazil, the national register counted 6,878 people named Hartmann, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
How common is Hartmann compared with other names?
In Germany, Hartmann 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, “Hartmann” — the 23rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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