Pfaender
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Pfaender is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.1M(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 26Kas Pfander
- DEGermany≈1 in 56Kas Pfänder
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 Pfaender 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 151K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Pfänder, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pfaender in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pfander in US United States, CH Switzerland, CA Canada and 2 more and Pfänder in DE Germany.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Pfaender is found
(measured from records)Pfaender 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 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 56K | listed | Pfänder | 62 |
| CH Switzerland | 329as Pfander | 1 in 26K | 329 | Pfander | 17 |
| US United States | 216as Pfander | 1 in 1.5M | 218 | Pfander | 95 |
| BR Brazil | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Pfander | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Pfander | 7 |
| BB Barbados | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Pfander | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Pfaender | 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 2000; the dfa-band-5 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pfaender?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Pfänder in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Switzerland, United States, Brazil and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pfaender?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 329 people named Pfander in 2024, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pfaender?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pfaenderThe 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, “Pfaender”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.