Sunderman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from south/sunder + man; bearers: Niederlande 28+30, Belgien 6+19, Luxemburg 0+0
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Sunderman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 125K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
2,664 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from south/sunder + man; bearers: Niederlande 28+30, Belgien 6+19, Luxemburg 0+0.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sunderman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,664 | 1 in 125K | 2.7K | Sunderman | 234 |
| CA Canada | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Sunderman | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 300K | 20 | Sunderman | 25 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Sunderman | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 340K | — | Sunderman | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Sunderman | 1 |
2,664 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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). 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)Sunderman 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, Sunder-/Sonder- surname cluster; the plate shows o/u vowel variation (Sunder, Sonder, Sundersorge, Sundergelt, Sunderman). Bearer counts not given here.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
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)- F. William Sundermanb. 1898USAmerican physician (1898-2003)
- Klaus Sundermanb. 1916DEGerman immigrant
- Frederick William Sunderman Jr.b. 1931USAmerican physician and scientist (1931-2011)
- Nick Sundermanb. 1954USAmerican director and poet
- Collette Sundermanb. 1959USAmerican voice director and casting director
- Blake Sundermanb. 1991USAmerican actor
- Aubrey Sundermanb. 1996USAmerican actress
- Joe SundermanUScollege basketball player (1975–1979) Xavier
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,759 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,964 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,406 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 20 | #90,540 |
| US United States | wru 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
- What does the name Sunderman mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from south/sunder + man; bearers: Niederlande 28+30, Belgien 6+19, Luxemburg 0+0. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Sunderman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Sunderman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sunderman.
- How common is the name Sunderman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,664 people named Sunderman in 2010, about 1 in 125 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, “Sunderman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.