Rothermel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: zu mhd. ermel 'Ärmel' mit rot- (Farbadjektiv); 654 Belege
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈɹɑθɝməɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rothermel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 52K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 139K
- USUnited States1 in 139K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 52K (inferred from the name graph)
2,396 people, 2010
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)zu mhd. ermel 'Ärmel' mit rot- (Farbadjektiv); 654 Belege
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rothermel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,396 | 1 in 139K | 2.5K | Rothermel | 262 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Rothermel | 85 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 139K | 30 | Rothermel | 34 |
| IT Italy | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Rothermel | 3 |
| EG Egypt | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Rothermel | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Rothermel | 22 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Rothermel | 1 |
2,396 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- Nicolas Rothermelb. 1805LU(1805-1871)
- Peter F. Rothermelb. 1812USAmerican painter (1812-1895)
- François Rothermelb. 1833LU(1833-1869)
- P. Frederick Rothermelb. 1850USAmerican lawyer (1850-1929)
- John Hoover Rothermelb. 1856USAmerican politician
- Fridolin Rothermelb. 1895DEGerman politician (1895-1955)
- Jim Rothermelb. 1941PAAmerican musician (1941-2011)
- Janita Rothermelb. 1997DEGerman association football player
- Gregg RothermelUSAmerican computer scientist, software engineer and academic
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,595 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,850 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,216 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 30 | #70,023 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Rothermel mean, and where does it come from?
- zu mhd. ermel 'Ärmel' mit rot- (Farbadjektiv); 654 Belege Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Rothermel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹɑθɝməɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Rothermel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Rothermel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rothermel.
- How common is the name Rothermel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,396 people named Rothermel in 2010, about 1 in 139 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/rothermelThe 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, “Rothermel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.