Sturmer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Sturmer, Essex; first attested William de Sturmere 1286 FFEss (A Dictionary of English Surnames)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/ʃtuɾmɛɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated

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Sturmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 1,987 people, counted by IBGE.

  • BRBrazil1 in 107K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 124K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 147K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,987 people

Record sources
65 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Sturmer

  • Portuguese:/ʃtuɾmɛɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Spanish:/stuɾmeɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Sturmer, Essex; first attested William de Sturmere 1286 FFEss

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Sturmer is found

(measured from records)

Sturmer 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 Sturmer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,9871 in 107K2KSturmer65
US United States2471 in 1.3M342Sturmer21
DE Germany≈160 est.≈1 in 516Klisted—1
GB United Kingdom≈100 est.≈1 in 676K89—2
AR Argentina821 in 555K82Sturmer22
CH Switzerland571 in 147K57—1
FI Finland451 in 124K45—2

1,987 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Sturmer is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Stürmer

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Stürmer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stürmer

  • Finnish name4 spellings in the group

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Stürmer

32 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Sturmer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, inflection of sturm:

    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)

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)
FormalDear Sturmer,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sturmer mean, and where does it come from?
from Sturmer, Essex; first attested William de Sturmere 1286 FFEss Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Sturmer?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /ʃtuɾmɛɾ/; in Spanish /stuɾmeɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Sturmer?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Sturmer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sturmer. After it come United States, Germany, United Kingdom and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Sturmer most common?
Sturmer is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 107 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sturmer?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,987 people named Sturmer, about 1 in 107 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, “Sturmer” — ranked 4898th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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