Wolman
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wolman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Wollmann.
- ILIsrael1 in 15Kas וולמן(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 37K
- PLPoland1 in 197K
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 Wolman 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
1,167 named Wallman
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled וולמן in IL Israel, PL Poland, UY Uruguay.
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)
Variant of Wollmann.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wolman 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | 1,167as Wallman | 1 in 8.7K | 1.2K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 1,119as Wollmann | 1 in 189K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 934as Wallman | 1 in 356K | 1.1K | Wolman | 33 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Wolman | 2 |
| IL Israel | 564as וולמן | 1 in 15K | 564 | וולמן | 20 |
| PL Poland | 194 | 1 in 197K | 98 | וולמן | 3 |
| NO Norway | 124as Wollmann | 1 in 44K | 124 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 91 | 1 in 37K | 91 | וולמן | 1 |
1,167 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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"); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Leo Wolmanb. 1890USAmerican economist (1890-1961)
- Abel Wolmanb. 1892USAmerican scientist (1892–1989)
- Walter Wolmanb. 1901DEGerman university teacher (1901-2003)
- Moshe Wolmanb. 1914ILIsraeli scientist
- Ruth Gotliebb. 1923NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand politician and community volunteer (1923–2019)
- M. Gordon Wolmanb. 1924USAmerican geographer
- Baron Wolmanb. 1937USAmerican photographer
- Léa Wolmanb. 1951BEwidow of Prince Alexander of Belgium
- Amnon Wolmanb. 1955USAmerican-Israeli composer
- Luis Wolmanbotanist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 559 | #37,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 558 | #41,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 520 | #41,799 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 98 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 98 | #30,529 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 96 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 96 | #30,704 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 91 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 79 | #75,534 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,354 |
| 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 Wolman mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Wollmann. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wolman have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Wallman, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wolman most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wolman is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wolman?
- In Poland, the national register counted 194 people named Wolman in 2026, about 1 in 197 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolmanThe 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, “Wolman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.