Sturmer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Sturmer, Essex; first attested William de Sturmere 1286 FFEss
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃtuɾmɛɾ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Sturmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- 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)
- Record sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)
1,987 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 in the world
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,987 | 1 in 107K | 2K | Sturmer | 65 |
| US United States | 247 | 1 in 1.3M | 342 | Sturmer | 21 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 516K | listed | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 676K | 89 | — | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 82 | 1 in 555K | 82 | Sturmer | 22 |
| CH Switzerland | 57 | 1 in 147K | 57 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 45 | 1 in 124K | 45 | — | 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 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)- Ian Sturmerb. 1991GBcricketer (born 1991)
- Hannah SturmerNZNew Zealand athlete
- Carl Sturmeractor
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2K | #4,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 342 | #63,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 247 | #77,522 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 89 | #35,604 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 82 | — |
| 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 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.
- In which country does Sturmer have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Sturmer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sturmerThe 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, “Sturmer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.