Pomer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname, apparently from a place name / regional name (possibly Pomern/Pommern); the page also notes a possible derivation from mhd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pəmɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pomer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.4M(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 88K
- ESSpain1 in 311K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname, apparently from a place name / regional name (possibly Pomern/Pommern); the page also notes a possible derivation from mhd. boum 'tree, coffin wood'. Bearer counts are given in the regional lists.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pomer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 598K | — | Pomer | 23 |
| ES Spain | 161 | 1 in 311K | 161 | Pomer | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 141 | 1 in 1.5M | 141 | — | — |
| US United States | 136 | 1 in 2.4M | 139 | Pomer | 104 |
| KE Kenya | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Pomer | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 24 | 1 in 88K | 24 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Pomer | 10 |
| IE Ireland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 375K | — | Pomer | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Pomer | 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Pomer 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 Catalan, apple tree
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)
- Stefan Pomerb. 1905Polish poet, writer, journalist and translator of Jewish descent
- Joshua L. Pomerb. 1980USAmerican film director and screenwriter
- Philipp Pomerb. 1997ATAustrian association football player
- Nuria Pomerb. 2000ESSpanish association football player
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 161 | #19,465 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 161 | #19,391 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 141 | #48,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 139 | #116,123 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 136 | #126,018 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 129 | #135,344 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 24 | #12,204 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Pomer come from?
- Toponymic surname, apparently from a place name / regional name (possibly Pomern/Pommern); the page also notes a possible derivation from mhd. boum 'tree, coffin wood'. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Pomer?
- A machine transcription gives /pəmɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pomer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname, apparently from a place name / regional name (possibly Pomern/Pommern); the page also notes a possible derivation from mhd.
- In which country does Pomer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 people named Pomer in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pomer.
- Where is Pomer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pomer is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 88 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pomer?
- In Spain, the national register counted 161 people named Pomer, about 1 in 311 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pomer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pomerThe 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, “Pomer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.