Lichtman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1, Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a chandler, from Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’ + man
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Lichtman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 259K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 902K
- PLPoland1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lichtman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 259K (inferred from the name graph)
1,282 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled ליכטמן in IL Israel, PL Poland, AR Argentina.
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)1, Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a chandler, from Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’ + man. 2. Dutch: variant of Lighterman.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lichtman 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.
1,282 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Charles Henry Litchmanb. 1849not in their usual name1849-1902 , labor reformer and editor
- Al Lichtmanb. 1888FRAmerican businessman (1888–1958)
- Marshall A. Lichtmanb. 1934American hematologist
- Allan Lichtmanb. 1947USAmerican political scientist and historian
- Ronnie Lichtmanb. 1950USAmerican midwife, educator and women's health advocate
- Jeff W. Lichtmanb. 1951USprofessor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
- Charlotte Lichtmanb. 1993USAmerican ice dancer
- Cindy Lichtmanscreenwriter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,218 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,174 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,648 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #62,064 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #166,825 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #272,342 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Lichtman come from?
- 1, Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a chandler, from Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’ + man. 2. Dutch: variant of Lighterman. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Lichtman mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1, Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a chandler, from Yiddish likht ‘candle’, ‘light’ + man.
- In which country does Lichtman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Lichtman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lichtman.
- Where is Lichtman most common?
- Lichtman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 259 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lichtman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,282 people named Lichtman in 2010, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lichtmanThe 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, “Lichtman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.