Raimund
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic: ‘counsel protector’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Raimund is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- ATAustria
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic: ‘counsel protector’. See }Raymond in main dictionary.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Raimund is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a male given name, equivalent to English Raymond
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, zu Rufname mit Zweitglied ahd. munt/alsächs. mund ‚Hand, Schutz, Vormund‘; 96 Träger
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, ) Raimond; Raimund; Rei: mund: männl. Vom. (zu german. *ragina »Rat, Beschluss [der Götter], Schicksal« + german. *mundö »Schutz«). Der Name, der seit dem frühen Mittelalter im romanischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrachb. 1669ATAustrian politician and diplomat (1669-1742)
- Baron Raimund von Stillfriedb. 1839CZCzech photographer (1839-1911)
- Hans von Koesterb. 1844DEnot in their usual nameGerman admiral (1844-1928)
- Karl Popperb. 1902ATnot in their usual nameAustrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)
- Raimund Abrahamb. 1933ATArchitect (1933-2010)
- Raimund Harmstorfb. 1939DEGerman actor (1939-1998)
- Raimund Kroneb. 1946DEGerman voice actor
- Raimund Hogheb. 1949DEGerman journalist and choreographer
- Raimund Hörmannb. 1957DEWest German rower
- Raimund Wallischb. 1969ATAustrian actor
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 44 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 648 | #12,184 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 581 | #5,570 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2023 | 369 | #1,229 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 240 | #875 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 176 | #41,400 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 133 | — |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 120 | #967 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 120 | #902 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 116 | #33,771 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1970 | 107 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 79 | #26,019 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 78 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Raimund come from?
- Germanic: ‘counsel protector’. See }Raymond in main dictionary. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Raimund mean?
- Recorded meaning: Germanic: ‘counsel protector’.
- Is Raimund a male or female name?
- Raimund is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Raimund?
- In the etymology graph, Ramon, Raymond and Raimundo are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Raimund have the most bearers?
- Raimund is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raimundThe 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, “Raimund”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.