Naumann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: aus neu + Mann ‘neu hinzugekommener Mann’; Typ mit au-Variante, 9605 Träger
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nawman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Naumann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 99K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 129K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 284 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
aus neu + Mann ‘neu hinzugekommener Mann’; Typ mit au-Variante, 9605 Träger
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naumann 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 | #185 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Naumann | 184 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #944 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Naumann | 1 |
| US United States | — | 3,356 | 1 in 99K | 3.4K | Naumann | 284 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 299K | — | Naumann | 9 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 129K | 118 | Naumann | 44 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 222 | 1 in 38K | 222 | Naumann | 29 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Naumann | 29 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Naumann | 11 |
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: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Naumann 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, Zum Erstglied Neu-; mitteldeutsche Vokalform zu neu, hier mit au. 9,605 Träger. Karte zeigt die au-Variante gegenüber neu und ni-/ie-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname, Variante zu Neumann (neu + Mann); die Karte zeigt au als Vokalvariante neben eu. 9605 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Croatian, njemački evangelički pastor, političar i publicist, jedan od utemeljitelja njemačke Liberalne unije, zatim (1919) osnivač i prvi predsjednik ujedinjene Demokratske stranke; današnji njemački liberali (FDP) drže ga svojim idejnim prethodnikom i njihova središnja zaklada nosi ime Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (od 1992. djeluje i u Hrvatskoj)
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Johann Gottlieb Naumannb. 1741DEGerman composer (1741–1801)
- Johann Andreas Naumannb. 1744DEGerman naturalist (1744–1826)
- Johann Friedrich Naumannb. 1780DEGerman ornithologist, engraver and editor (1780-1857)
- Carl Friedrich Naumannb. 1797DEGerman geologist (1797-1873)
- Edmund Naumannb. 1854DEGerman geo scientist (1854–1927)
- Erich Naumannb. 1905DEGerman SS general, SD member, Einsatzgruppe B chief and convicted war criminal (1905–1951)
- Werner Naumannb. 1909DENazi politician (1909-1982)
- Konrad Naumannb. 1928DEGerman politician (1928–1992)
- Michael Naumannb. 1941DEGerman journalist and politician
- Lilian Naumannb. 1981DEGerman actress
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.3K | #9,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #9,092 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 222 | #5,738 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 118 | #29,851 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Naumann?
- A machine transcription gives /nawman/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Naumann mean?
- Recorded meaning: aus neu + Mann ‘neu hinzugekommener Mann’; Typ mit au-Variante, 9605 Träger
- In which country does Naumann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Naumann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled naumann.
- How common is the name Naumann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,356 people named Naumann in 2010, about 1 in 99 thousand residents.
- How common is Naumann compared with other names?
- In Germany, Naumann is the 185th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naumannThe 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, “Naumann” — the 185th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.