Roßmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ross 'horse' + Mann 'man'; horse dealer/groom nickname
Roßmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 36Kas Rossmann(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 11Kas Rossmann
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88Kas Rossmann
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 Roßmann 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
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Rossmann, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est., as Rossmann
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Rossmann in DE Germany, AT Austria, US United States and 1 more.
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)
from Ross 'horse' + Mann 'man'; horse dealer/groom nickname
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Roßmann 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 | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Rossmann | 118 |
| AT Austria | #650 | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Rossmann | 62 |
| US United States | — | 522as Rossmann | 1 in 637K | 555 | Rossmann | 89 |
| BR Brazil | — | 503as Rossmann | 1 in 421K | 503 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 95as Rossmann | 1 in 88K | 95 | Rossmann | 14 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 57as Rossmann | 1 in 188K | 57 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 3 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bernhard Roßmannb. 1873DEGerman politician
- Erich Roßmannb. 1884DEGerman politician (1884–1953)
- Peter Maria Roßmannb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1957)
- Edmund Roßmannb. 1918DEGerman World War II fighter ace
- Dirk Roßmannb. 1946DEGerman entrepreneur
- Werner Roßmannb. 1948ATAustrian politician
- Jürgen Roßmannb. 1954DEGerman mathematician
- Raoul Roßmannb. 1985DEGerman entrepreneur and managing director of a drugstore chain
- Jürgen RoßmannDEprofessor of electrical engineering in Aachen
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
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
- What does the name Roßmann mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ross 'horse' + Mann 'man'; horse dealer/groom nickname Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Roßmann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Rossmann in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Roßmann?
- In the United States, the national register counted 522 people named Rossmann in 2010, about 1 in 637 thousand residents.
- How common is Roßmann compared with other names?
- In Austria, Roßmann is the 650th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ro%C3%9FmannThe 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, “Roßmann” — the 650th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.