Riemann
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁiːman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Riemann is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- DKDenmark
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)
Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Riemann is read(measured from records)
Riemann is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German50%
Toponymischer Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname; nördl. einer Linie Köln–Dresden verbreitet, teils zu mnd. rīde/rīe, sonst auch zu Rhein, Riege oder Richmann; 2492 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Wohl nicht aus Rufname mit ragin/regin-, da i-Stammvokal dort selten ist; 2492 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
- English39%
Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Bernhard, German mathematician
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
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)
Riemann 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 Croatian, njemački matematičar, njegove ideje o geometriji generaliziranog prostora utjecale su na razvoj teorijske fizike i našle primjenu u teoriji relativnosti
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Bernhard Riemannb. 1826DEGerman mathematician (1826–1866)
- Hugo Riemannb. 1849DEGerman musicologist (1849-1919)
- Fritz Riemannb. 1859DEGerman chess player (1859–1932)
- Antonin Raymondb. 1888USnot in their usual nameCzech architect (1888–1976)
- Johannes Riemannb. 1888DEGerman actor (1888-1959)
- Katja Riemannb. 1963DEGerman actress
- Sven Riemannb. 1967DEGerman actor
- Manuel Riemannb. 1988DEGerman footballer
- Alexander Riemannb. 1992DEGerman footballer
- Paula Riemannb. 1993DEGerman actress
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 23 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Riemann mean, and where does it come from?
- Pertaining to the mathematician Bernhard Riemann. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Riemann?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁiːman/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Riemann have the most bearers?
- Riemann is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/riemannThe 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
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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, “Riemann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.