Lahmer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a byname meaning 'the lame'; also from place name Lahm
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lame/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lahmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 128K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 8.1K
- MAMorocco≈1 in 40K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a byname meaning 'the lame'; also from place name Lahm
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lahmer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Lahmer | 10 |
| MA Morocco | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lahmer | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 53K | listed | Lahmer | 10 |
| DE Germany | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Lahmer | 52 |
| FR France | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 128K | 64 | Lahmer | 136 |
| ES Spain | 154 | 1 in 325K | 154 | Lahmer | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Lahmer | 16 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the dz-kaggle-names 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)
Lahmer is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, inflection of lahm:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, teils Variante zu Lambert; auch möglicher Übername zu mhd./mnd. lam 'lahm'; im Text mit 261 Belegen
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, from a nickname for a lame person
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Marc Lahmerb. 1900FRFrench lawyer
- Annie Lahmerb. 1959FRFrench politician
- Anna Lahmerb. 1970SESwedish actress
- Tom Lahmerb. 1978DEPh.D. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 2008
- Franz LahmerATAustrian racing driver
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 154 | #20,197 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 154 | #20,100 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 65 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 64 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 46 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 2 | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | — | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Lahmer mean, and where does it come from?
- from a byname meaning 'the lame'; also from place name Lahm Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Lahmer?
- A machine transcription gives /lame/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Lahmer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Lahmer in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lahmer.
- How common is the name Lahmer?
- In Spain, the national register counted 154 people named Lahmer, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lahmerThe 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, “Lahmer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.