Stürm

surname · Latin script

Meaning: singular imperative of stürmen

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

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 4.1K
  • USUnited States1 in 36K

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)

≈20,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
351 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StürmLatin(measured from records)
ชตัวร์มThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sturm in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more and Šturm in SI Slovenia.

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)

singular imperative of stürmen

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stürm 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 Stürm is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany#242≈20,000 est.≈1 in 4KlistedSturm191
US United States—9,2421 in 36K9.2KSturm351
AT Austria#217≈2,100 est.≈1 in 4.1K—Sturm88
GB United Kingdom—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 63K104Sturm71
IT Italy—≈980 est.≈1 in 64K—Sturm10
NL Netherlands—8891 in 19K889Sturm37
SI Slovenia—8101 in 2.6K810Šturm8
CH Switzerland—4481 in 19K448Sturm41

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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).

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

Stürm is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sturm, Šturm

  • Italian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Sturm, Šturm

  • Croatian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Slovenia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Šturm, Sturm, Щурм, Shturm, Штурм

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)

194019601980Hans Stürm, b. 1942Walter Stürm, b. 1942Simon Stürm, b. 1973

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.

Official registers attesting Stürm
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202499#11,154

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

What does the name Stürm mean, and where does it come from?
singular imperative of stürmen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Stürm have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Stürm in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sturm.
Where is Stürm most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stürm is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stürm?
In the United States, the national register counted 9,242 people named Stürm in 2010, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
How common is Stürm compared with other names?
In Germany, Stürm is the 242nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Stürm” — the 242nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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