Hauptmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: captain (male [also female] or of unspecified sex; cf. Herr / Frau Hauptmann)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/haʊptman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hauptmann is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- ATAustria
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
captain (male [also female] or of unspecified sex; cf. Herr / Frau Hauptmann)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Hauptmann is read(measured from records)
Hauptmann 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.
- German55%
captain (male [also female] or of unspecified sex; cf. Herr / Frau Hauptmann)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Berufsname zu mhd. houbetman / mnd. hovetman ‚Oberster in einem Verband‘; zeigt labiale Plosive/Frikative (p/b/v/f); 2165 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
„Hauptmann, Anführer, Verwalter“; im Plz 027 Leutersdorf als Nest mit 85 Trägern erwähnt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
occupation: captain/chief officer
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
mainly an ornamental adoption of 1.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- English26%
Gerhart, German author (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Hauptmann in French.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Moritz Hauptmannb. 1792DEGerman music theorist, teacher and composer (1792–1868)
- Carl Hauptmannb. 1858DEGerman writer (1858–1921)
- Gerhart Hauptmannb. 1862PLGerman dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946)
- Ivo Hauptmannb. 1886DEGerman painter (1886-1973)
- Elisabeth Hauptmannb. 1897DEGerman writer (1897–1973)
- Bruno Richard Hauptmannb. 1899DEcarpenter, convicted murderer (1899-1936)
- Harald Hauptmannb. 1936DEGerman praehistorian and near eastern archaeologist
- Gaby Hauptmannb. 1957DEGerman writer and journalist (born 1957)
- Ralf Hauptmannb. 1968DEGerman footballer (1968-)
- Mark Hauptmannb. 1984DEGerman politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 441 | #47,966 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 440 | #51,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 379 | #51,583 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 111 | #15,202 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 110 | #7,404 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 68 | #9,851 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 66 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 64 | #8,383 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,660 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 49 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 47 | #19,565 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hauptmann mean, and where does it come from?
- captain (male [also female] or of unspecified sex; cf. Herr / Frau Hauptmann) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Hauptmann?
- In the etymology graph, Hetman is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Hauptmann?
- A machine transcription gives /haʊptman/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Hauptmann have the most bearers?
- Hauptmann is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hauptmannThe 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, “Hauptmann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.