Reum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ruhm, Ragin II, or räumen (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Reum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 89K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 105K
- CACanada≈1 in 450Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
≈940 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Ruhm, Ragin II, or räumen
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Reum is found
(measured from records)Reum 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 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Reum | 63 |
| US United States | 519 | 1 in 641K | 519 | Reum | 194 |
| CA Canada | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 453K | — | Reum | 34 |
| PH Philippines | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Reum | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Reum | 11 |
| NO Norway | 52 | 1 in 105K | 52 | — | 1 |
| SG Singapore | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Reum | 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Reum is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, accusative singular of reus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, mother
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)- Johann Adam Reumb. 1780DEGerman botanist and mathematician (1780-1839)
- Walter J. Reumb. 1914USAmerican lawyer, politician, and writer (1914–1999)
- Carter Reumb. 1981USAmerican entrepreneur
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Reum mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ruhm, Ragin II, or räumen Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Reum?
- Mondonomo estimates about 938 people named Reum in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled reum. After it come United States, Canada, Philippines and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Reum?
- In the United States, the national register counted 519 people named Reum in 2010, about 1 in 641 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reumThe 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, “Reum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.