Tessmer
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈtɛsmɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tessmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 229K
- PLPoland1 in 93K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
1,455 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tessmer 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 | — | 1,455 | 1 in 229K | 1.5K | Tessmer | 195 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Tessmer | 80 |
| BR Brazil | — | 522 | 1 in 406K | 522 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 411 | 1 in 93K | 210 | Tessmer | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 352K | — | Tessmer | 2 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 178K | — | Tessmer | 1 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Tessmer | 1 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Tessmer | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #727 | — | — | — | Tessmer | 1 |
1,455 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Heinrich Tessmerb. 1943DEGerman painter (1943-2012)
- Norbert Tessmerb. 1953DEGerman politician
- Eric Tessmerb. 1981USAmerican guitarist
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,431 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,819 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 522 | #16,425 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 210 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 210 | #15,459 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 201 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 201 | #16,409 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Tessmer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɛsmɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Tessmer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Tessmer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tessmer.
- How common is the name Tessmer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,455 people named Tessmer in 2010, about 1 in 229 thousand residents.
- How common is Tessmer compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Tessmer is the 727th most common surname of 30,187 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tessmer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tessmerThe 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, “Tessmer” — the 727th most common surname in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.