Pfortner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname with -er formation from Pforte/Pfort-; 72 bearers
/pfɔʁtnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pfortner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 377K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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 Pfortner 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)
- Sources
- 63 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 100K (inferred from the name graph)
≈800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pförtner in DE Germany, AT Austria and Pfoertner in US United States.
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 with -er formation from Pforte/Pfort-; 72 bearers.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pfortner 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 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Pförtner | 52 |
| US United States | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 5.6M | listed | Pfoertner | 42 |
| FR France | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 9 | Pfortner | 63 |
| AT Austria | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Pförtner | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | 12 | 1 in 892K | 12 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | Pfortner | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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)
Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #71,202 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 12 | #17,768 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 1 | — |
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
- What does the name Pfortner mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname with -er formation from Pforte/Pfort-; 72 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Pfortner?
- A machine transcription gives /pfɔʁtnɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Pfortner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 799 people named Pfortner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pförtner.
- How common is the name Pfortner?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 12 people named Pfortner, about 1 in 892 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pfortnerThe 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, “Pfortner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.