Waltman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymischer Wohnstättenname, wohl zu Wald- 'Wald' (entsprechend zur Wohnstätte im/ am Wald); belegte Schreibvarianten im Text: Waltman, Waltmann, Waltmans, Waldman, Waldner, Waldenner
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɔɫtmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waltman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 69K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 81K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)
4,822 people, 2010
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymischer Wohnstättenname, wohl zu Wald- 'Wald' (entsprechend zur Wohnstätte im/ am Wald); belegte Schreibvarianten im Text: Waltman, Waltmann, Waltmans, Waldman, Waldner, Waldenner.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waltman 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 | 4,822 | 1 in 69K | 4.8K | Waltman | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | 214 | 1 in 81K | 214 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 54 | 1 in 3.9M | 54 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 9 | 1 in 4.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
4,822 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Kjell Waltmanb. 1758SESwedish actor
- Paul Elvis Waltmanb. 1931USPh.D. University of Missouri - Columbia 1962
- Hélène Dollfus-Waltmanb. 1964researcher
- Sean Waltmanb. 1972USAmerican professional wrestler
- Ludo WaltmanNLresearcher in scientometrics
- Johan WaltmanSESwedish painter
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.8K | #6,956 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.2K | #7,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.1K | #7,800 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 214 | #9,730 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 54 | #99,355 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #188,661 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #127,760 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #298,074 |
| 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 given-name 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
- How do you pronounce Waltman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɔɫtmən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Waltman mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Wohnstättenname, wohl zu Wald- 'Wald' (entsprechend zur Wohnstätte im/ am Wald); belegte Schreibvarianten im Text: Waltman, Waltmann, Waltmans, Waldman, Waldner, Waldenner.
- In which country does Waltman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Waltman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waltman.
- Where is Waltman most common?
- Waltman is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 69 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Waltman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,822 people named Waltman in 2010, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waltmanThe 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, “Waltman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.