Waxman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a different form, either native English or from German Wachsmann, of Wax
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwæksmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waxman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 147K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 160K
- CACanada≈1 in 101K
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
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
2,078 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a different form, either native English or from German Wachsmann, of Wax.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Waxman 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 | 2,078 | 1 in 160K | 2.1K | Waxman | 316 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 147K | 238 | Waxman | 86 |
| CA Canada | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Waxman | 80 |
| IT Italy | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Waxman | 4 |
| MA Morocco | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Waxman | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Waxman | 4 |
| IL Israel | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Waxman | 30 |
| IE Ireland | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Waxman | 2 |
2,078 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 2020; 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)Waxman 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 English, from OE weax 'wax' + mann 'man'; 'seller of wax'; first attested Adam Wexman 1185 P (Wo)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)- Jacob Waksmanb. 1866PLnot in their usual nameYiddish operetta writer
- Franz Waxmanb. 1906DEGerman film composer (1906-1967)
- Harry Waxmanb. 1912GBEnglish cinematographer (1912–1984)
- Murray Waxmanb. 1925CACanadian basketball player (1925–2022)
- Al Waxmanb. 1935CACanadian actor and director (1935–2001)
- Henry Waxmanb. 1939USAmerican politician
- Seth P. Waxmanb. 1951USformer United States Solicitor General
- Anat Waxmanb. 1961ILIsraeli actress
- Sharon Waxmanb. 1963USAmerican writer
- Abbi Waxmanb. 1970GBBritish-American writer and copyriter
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,814 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.9K | #14,514 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 238 | #19,054 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Waxman mean, and where does it come from?
- a different form, either native English or from German Wachsmann, of Wax. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Waxman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwæksmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Waxman have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.1 thousand people named Waxman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waxman.
- How common is the name Waxman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,078 people named Waxman in 2010, about 1 in 160 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waxmanThe 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, “Waxman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.