Vollmer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymic from Volkmar; demonstrates the shift -mar > -mer and vowel variation in Voll-/Vol-/Fol- spellings (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Vollmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Vollmer is also written ฟอลเมอร in Thai.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 34Kfew records
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Vollmer in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)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
(measured from records)Patronymic from Volkmar; demonstrates the shift -mar > -mer and vowel variation in Voll-/Vol-/Fol- spellings. Bearer count: 10663.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Vollmer is found
(measured from records)Vollmer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #394 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Vollmer | 173 |
| US United States | — | 6,614 | 1 in 50K | 6.6K | Vollmer | 327 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 94 | Vollmer | 56 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Vollmer | 74 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Vollmer | 24 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 291 | 1 in 29K | 291 | Vollmer | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Vollmer | 16 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Vollmer 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 German, Patronym zu ahd./altsächs. folc 'Volk' + -mar aus māri 'berühmt'; Vokalabschwächung im Nebenton.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Volkmar; zeigt lk/ll-Varianz, teils Assimilation von lk zu ll bzw. Ausfall des mittleren Konsonanten. 9734 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Volkmar/Volmar; die Plate zeigt vor allem l/ll-, o/ö- und -mar/-mer-Varianten sowie Genitiv- und t-Erweiterungen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Deutscher Familienname; Karte zeigt die Konsonantenvariation Volkmer/Vollmer (gutturales Plosiv k ↔ ll). 9734 Namensträger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- Heinrich Vollmerb. 1885DEGerman firearm designer (1885–1961)
- Joan Vollmerb. 1923UScommon-law wife of William S. Burroughs
- Dana Vollmerb. 1987USAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, world record-holder
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Vollmer come from?
- Patronymic from Volkmar; demonstrates the shift -mar > -mer and vowel variation in Voll-/Vol-/Fol- spellings. Bearer count: 10663. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- What does the name Vollmer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymic from Volkmar; demonstrates the shift -mar > -mer and vowel variation in Voll-/Vol-/Fol- spellings.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vollmer?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Vollmer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vollmer. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vollmer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,614 people named Vollmer in 2010, about 1 in 50 thousand residents.
- How common is Vollmer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Vollmer is the 394th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vollmerThe 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, “Vollmer” — the 394th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.