Stammer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stammer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a late OE form meaning ‘stone-fame’, chiefly East Anglian; first attested Stanmar 1066 DB (Sf).
- DEGermany≈1 in 61K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 459K
- CNChina≈1 in 208K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a late OE form meaning ‘stone-fame’, chiefly East Anglian; first attested Stanmar 1066 DB (Sf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stammer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Stammer | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | listed | Stammer | 77 |
| US United States | 724 | 1 in 459K | 724 | Stammer | 187 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 571K | 70 | Stammer | 53 |
| PH Philippines | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Stammer | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 372K | — | Stammer | 15 |
| CU Cuba | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 266K | — | Stammer | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Stammer | 10 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Stammer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, surname form; related to OE/ON name elements, see context
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, To keep repeating a particular sound involuntarily during speech.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, indefinite feminine plural of stamme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of stamme
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Stammerb. 1826DEDr. phil. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 1849
- Karl Stammerb. 1828LULuxembourgish chemist (1828-1893)
- Emil Stammerb. 1858DEGerman theater and silent film actor
- Martin Stammerb. 1883DEGerman politician (1883-1966)
- Eberhard Stammerb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1966)
- Hans-Jürgen Stammerb. 1899DEGerman zoologist (1899–1968)
- Uta Stammerb. 1948DEGerman film actor and stage actor (1948-2018)
- Detlef Stammerb. 1957DEresearcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-5777-5347
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 724 | #31,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 689 | #31,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 685 | #35,388 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 70 | #41,368 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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 Stammer mean, and where does it come from?
- from a late OE form meaning ‘stone-fame’, chiefly East Anglian; first attested Stanmar 1066 DB (Sf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Stammer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Stammer in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stammer.
- How common is the name Stammer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 724 people named Stammer in 2010, about 1 in 459 thousand 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, “Stammer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.