Ortman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ort-; often local, also from mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ort̪man/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Ortman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ZMZambia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 45K
- CACanada≈1 in 100Kfew records
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
2,475 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zambia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ort-; often local, also from mhd. ortman 'arbitrator'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ortman is found
(measured from records)Ortman 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 | 2,475 | 1 in 134K | 2.5K | Ortman | 278 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 1 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Ortman | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Ortman | 14 |
| PL Poland | 264 | 1 in 145K | 137 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 82 | 1 in 124K | 82 | Ortman | 14 |
| NA Namibia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 1 | — | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Ortman | 1 |
2,475 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; ECZ 2021 Councillor Elections — candidate results. 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)- Hava Ortmanb. 1951ILIsraeli actress
- Julianne Ortmanb. 1962USAmerican politician
- Irina Ortmanb. 1978RURussian singer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ortman come from?
- from ort-; often local, also from mhd. ortman 'arbitrator' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Ortman?
- In Spanish /ort̪man/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Ortman mean?
- Recorded meaning: from ort-; often local, also from mhd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ortman?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Ortman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ortman. After it come Zambia, Canada, United Kingdom and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ortman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,475 people named Ortman in 2010, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ortmanThe 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, “Ortman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.