Nußbaum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature: to mhd
Nußbaum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 33Kas Nussbaum(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 77Kas Nussbaum
- CHSwitzerland1 in 4.6Kas Nussbaum
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 Nußbaum 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Nussbaum, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland, as Nussbaum
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nussbaum in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 4 more.
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)
Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature: to mhd. nuaboum, mnd. not(e)bōm 'Nussbaum'; 12 Types/1848 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nußbaum 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Nussbaum | 3 |
| US United States | — | 4,321as Nussbaum | 1 in 77K | 4.4K | Nussbaum | 327 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Nussbaum | 105 |
| CH Switzerland | #397 | 1,828as Nussbaum | 1 in 4.6K | 1.8K | Nussbaum | 56 |
| FR France | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 89 | — | 4 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Nussbaum | 27 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Nussbaum | 31 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Nussbaum | 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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
Nußbaum is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a dwelling/place name with Nußbaum 'walnut tree'; 1848 bearers.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, ornamental surname from Nußbaum 'walnut tree'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Formerly standard spelling of Nussbaum which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from a plant nickname; 'walnut tree'
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)
- Anton Norstb. 1859ATnot in their usual nameAustrian writer and civil servant (1859–1939)
- Josef Nußbaumb. 1877naturalist
- Theodor Nußbaumb. 1885DEGerman architect (1885–1956)
- Christian Nußbaumb. 1888FRGerman politician (1888-1939)
- Robert Nußbaumb. 1892DEGerman physician
- Walter Nußbaumb. 1920DEGerman association football player (1920-2002)
- Karl-Otto Nußbaumb. 1923DEGerman liturgical scholar
- Herbert Nußbaumb. 1929DEGerman actor (1929–2011)
- Jack Whiteb. 1940DEnot in their usual nameGerman music producer and composer, association football player (1940–2025)
- Ulrich Nußbaumb. 1957DEGerman politician
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Nußbaum come from?
- Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature: to mhd. nuaboum, mnd. not(e)bōm 'Nussbaum'; 12 Types/1848 Tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Nußbaum mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature: to mhd.
- In which country does Nußbaum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Nussbaum in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nußbaum most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Nußbaum itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Switzerland's: the national register counts about 1 in 4.6 thousand people named Nussbaum.
- How common is the name Nußbaum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,321 people named Nussbaum in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Nußbaum compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Nußbaum is the 397th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nu%C3%9FbaumThe 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, “Nußbaum” — the 397th most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.