Rissmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 261+628
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁɪsman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rissmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 77Kas Rißmann(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 249K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 379K
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 Rissmann 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
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 249K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 named Rißmann, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rißmann in DE Germany.
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)
Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 261+628.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rissmann 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Rißmann | 81 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 103 | Rissmann | 69 |
| PL Poland | 40 | 1 in 957K | 22 | Rissmann | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 822K | — | Rissmann | 26 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | 24 | Rissmann | 26 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 379K | — | Rissmann | 10 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 103 | #147,095 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,721 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #85,354 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 18 | #96,487 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Rissmann mean, and where does it come from?
- Dentale Konsonantenvariation ss/ß; Belege 261+628. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus.
- How do you pronounce Rissmann?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁɪsman/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Rissmann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Rißmann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Rissmann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rissmann is densest in Norway — about 1 in 249 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rissmann?
- In Poland, the national register counted 40 people named Rissmann in 2026, about 1 in 957 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/rissmannThe 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, “Rissmann”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.