Neuman
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnumən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neuman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From German Neuman.
- CACanada≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 37K
- CZCzechia1 in 12K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Neuman itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
8,982 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Naman in IN India.
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)
From German Neuman.
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neuman 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 8,982 | 1 in 37K | 9K | Neuman | 389 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,200 | 1 in 32K | 614 | Neuman | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 1 | Neuman | 121 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 1 | Neuman | 10 |
| IN India | — | 902as Nemani | 1 in 1.5M | 902 | Naman | 33 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 876 | 1 in 12K | 876 | — | 4 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Neuman | 24 |
| SE Sweden | — | 484 | 1 in 21K | 484 | Neuman | 39 |
| FI Finland | — | 203 | 1 in 27K | 203 | — | 4 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #449 | — | — | — | Neuman | 1 |
8,982 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Neuman is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, inhuman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Václav Neumannb. 1920CZnot in their usual nameCzech conductor, violinist and viola player (1920-1995)
- Shoshana Neumanb. 1931ILIsraeli artist
- Alberto Neumanb. 1933ARArgentine classical pianist (1933–2021)
- Priscilla Cohnb. 1933USnot in their usual nameAmerican philosopher
- František Neumanb. 1937CZCzechoslovak mathematician
- Tomasz Neumanb. 1951PLPolish-Swedish actor
- Danny Neumanb. 1955ILIsraeli footballer
- Alon Neumanb. 1967ILactor, voice actor, stand-up comedian
- Eran Neumanb. 1968ILIsraeli architect
- Andrés Neumanb. 1977ESArgentine writer
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 43 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9K | #3,957 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8.6K | #3,999 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.6K | #3,801 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 876 | #1,585 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 871 | #1,315 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 871 | #1,580 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 614 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 614 | #5,246 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 586 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 586 | #5,412 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 484 | #1,933 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 203 | #7,396 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Neuman mean, and where does it come from?
- From German Neuman. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Neuman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnumən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Neuman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Neuman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neuman.
- Where is Neuman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neuman is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Neuman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,982 people named Neuman in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Neuman compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Neuman is the 449th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Neuman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neumanThe 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, “Neuman” — the 449th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.