Kommer
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: problems, worries, concern
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kommer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 102K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 811K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 32K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. occupational name for a maker of kettles and buckets, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German komp ‘bowl’. 2. variant of Kammer.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kommer is read(measured from records)
Kommer is one spelling over 4 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.
- English57%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kommer in English.
- German18%
Unklar; vielleicht zu Kummer oder als Herkunft aus mhd. komen/kumen 'kommen' (Neuankömmling).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- French6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kommer in French.
- Dutch5.6%
problems, worries, concern
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Kommer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Kommer | 72 |
| US United States | 410 | 1 in 811K | 445 | Kommer | 131 |
| NL Netherlands | 355 | 1 in 49K | 355 | Kommer | 36 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 382K | — | Kommer | 9 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 573K | 11 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 65 | Kommer | 6 |
| FI Finland | 31 | 1 in 180K | 31 | — | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Kommer | 1 |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Kommer 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.
1. occupational name for a maker of kettles and buckets, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German komp ‘bowl’. 2. variant of Kammer.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, present indicative of komma
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, present of komme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, fouleur, drapier ; foulon
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Fanny Kommerb. 1865ATHolocaust victim (born 1865)
- Josef Kommerb. 1869ATHolocaust victim (born 1869)
- Kurt Kommerb. 1915ATHolocaust victim (born 1915)
- Björn R. Kommerb. 1942DEGerman art historian (1942–2022)
- Gerd Kommerb. 1962German investment banker and author
- Asso Kommerb. 1966EEEstonian soldier and politician (born 1966)
- Nick Kommerb. 1990Australian rules footballer
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 23 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 445 | #45,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 434 | #51,779 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 410 | #50,851 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 355 | #5,699 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 65 | #1,351 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 54 | #1,749 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 31 | #33,900 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 22 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 16 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 14 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
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
- Where does the name Kommer come from?
- 1. occupational name for a maker of kettles and buckets, from an agent derivative of Middle Low German komp ‘bowl’. 2. variant of Kammer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kommer mean?
- In Dutch, problems, worries, concern
- What are other forms of the name Kommer?
- In the etymology graph, Kummer is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kommer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 786 people named Kommer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kommer.
- How common is the name Kommer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 410 people named Kommer in 2010, about 1 in 811 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kommer?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kommerThe 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, “Kommer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.