Wachsmann
surname · Latin script
Meaning: or seller of beeswax, from Ger
/vaksman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wachsmann is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 9.1Kas וקסמן(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 160Kas Waxman
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wachsmann itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 840K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 named Waksman, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled וקסמן in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Waksman in US United States, CN China.
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)
or seller of beeswax, from Ger. Wachs wax (MHG, OHG wahs) + Mann man. Wax was important in former times, being used for example to make candles and for sealing
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wachsmann 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 447K | — | Waksman | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,078as Waxman | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Waksman | 134 |
| IL Israel | #964 | 950as וקסמן | 1 in 9.1K | 950 | וקסמן | 24 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | וקסמן | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | וקסמן | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | וקסמן | 3 |
| BR Brazil | — | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 32as Waksman | 1 in 106K | 32 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl von Wachsmannb. 1787PLGerman writer
- Bedřich Wachsmannb. 1820CZCzech architect and painter (1820-1897)
- Konrad Wachsmannb. 1901DEGerman architect (1901–1980)
- Felix Wachsmannb. 1904DEGerman physicist
- Klaus Wachsmannb. 1907DEBritish ethnomusicologist
- Phil Wachsmannb. 1944GBUgandan musician
- Daniel Wachsmannb. 1946ILIsraeli film director
- Shelley Wachsmannb. 1950archaeologist
- Nikolaus Wachsmannb. 1971DEGerman historian
- Kiril Wachsmannb. 1984USAmerican basketball player
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 249 | #77,012 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 230 | #87,019 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 211 | #83,004 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
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
- Where does the name Wachsmann come from?
- or seller of beeswax, from Ger. Wachs wax (MHG, OHG wahs) + Mann man. Wax was important in former times, being used for example to make candles and for sealing Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Wachsmann?
- A machine transcription gives /vaksman/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Wachsmann mean?
- Recorded meaning: or seller of beeswax, from Ger.
- In which country does Wachsmann have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Waksman in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wachsmann most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wachsmann is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 840 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wachsmann?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 73 people named Wachsmann, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
- How common is Wachsmann compared with other names?
- In Israel, Wachsmann is the 964th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wachsmannThe 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, “Wachsmann” — the 964th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.