Scharmer

surname · Latin script

Scharmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 63K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 222K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈360 people, est.

Sources
107 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Austria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Scharmer 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.

Where Scharmer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈360 est.≈1 in 222K—Scharmer45
US United States2371 in 1.4M258Scharmer107
AT Austria≈140 est.≈1 in 63K—Scharmer26
IT Italy≈89 est.≈1 in 700K—Scharmer1
GB United Kingdom≈28 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Scharmer2
BE Belgium≈17 est.≈1 in 697K—Scharmer1
JM Jamaica≈4 est.≈1 in 726K—Scharmer1

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Scharmer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Panama

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Schärmer

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Robert Scharmer, b. 1862Franz Scharmer, b. 1891Heide Mommsen, b. 1941Göran Scharmer, b. 1951Otto Scharmer, b. 1961
  • Robert Scharmerb. 1862DEGerman jurist
  • Franz Scharmerb. 1891ATAustrian educationist and psychologist
  • Heide Mommsenb. 1941DEnot in their usual nameGerman classical archaeologist
  • Göran Scharmerb. 1951SESwedish astronomer
  • Otto Scharmerb. 1961DESenior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA and founder of the Presencing Institute

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 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Scharmer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020258#79,581
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000239#75,219
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010237#80,131
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

In which country does Scharmer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 360 people named Scharmer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled scharmer.
How common is the name Scharmer?
In the United States, the national register counted 237 people named Scharmer in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.

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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, “Scharmer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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