Baumgärtner

Name: Baumgärtner: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

surname · German · Latin script

Baumgärtner is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Switzerland it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in German and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner.

rarermore common

CHSwitzerland1 in 776◐
ATAustria1 in 979
DEGermany1 in 3.9K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈25K ●
Sources: 306 ●
: 1 in 776 ◐

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Baumgartner in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 17 more and Baumgaertner in FR France, PL Poland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner. Verbreitung des Typs mit a und ä nach PLZ-Karten.

Sources 1

Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Baumgärtner is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	#228	28,309	25K rec.	—	listed	Baumgartner	158
US United States	—	11,448	90K rec.	1 in 29K	11K	Baumgartner	306
CH Switzerland	#24	10,827△	2.4K rec.	1 in 776	11K	Baumgartner	111
AT Austria	#24	6,542	3.8K rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	124
GB United Kingdom	—	3,063	3K rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	48
CA Canada	—	2,104	2K rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	65
AU Australia	—	1,592	1.5K rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	66
BR Brazil	—	1,064△	4 rec.	1 in 199K	1.1K	—	4
AR Argentina	—	755	0 rec.	1 in 60K	755	—	1
IT Italy	—	731	711 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	36
UA Ukraine	—	270	347 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	5
BZ Belize	#31	251	580 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	2
PH Philippines	—	246	275 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	8
SG Singapore	—	242	252 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	5
RU Russia	—	236	269 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	7
FR France	—	205	558 rec.	1 in 331K	205	Baumgaertner	85
FI Finland	—	181△	45 rec.	1 in 31K	181	—	10
EG Egypt	—	151	145 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	3
TH Thailand	—	144	121 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	16
CZ Czechia	—	114	0 rec.	1 in 94K	114	—	1
HR Croatia	—	111	—	1 in 38K	111	—	—
SE Sweden	—	110	143 rec.	1 in 93K	110	Baumgartner	22
ES Spain	—	101	317 rec.	1 in 495K	101	Baumgärtner	19
ID Indonesia	—	87	87 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	3
SI Slovenia	—	78△	1 rec.	1 in 27K	78	—	3
PL Poland	—	55	156 rec.	1 in 696K	55	Baumgaertner	1
NO Norway	—	38△	12 rec.	1 in 144K	38	—	11
SA Saudi Arabia	—	38	40 rec.	—	—	Baumgartner	2
NL Netherlands	—	32	125 rec.	1 in 540K	32	Baumgartner	13
BE Belgium	—	23	505 rec.	1 in 510K	23	Baumgartner	13
EE Estonia	—	—	—	—	listed	—	—

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

German7.9K98%
Croatian501%
French181%
Spanish131%
Portuguese121%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
German	7,910	98%
Croatian	50	1%
French	18	1%
Spanish	13	1%
Portuguese	12	1%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Baumgärtner is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate surname63 records spelled Baumgärtner5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada
Also written Baumgartner, Baum-Gartner
Croatian surname51 records spelled Baumgärtner10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, Switzerland, United States, Slovenia
Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian
Also written Baumgartner, Баумгартнер
Spanish surname46 records spelled Baumgärtner6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Switzerland
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Baumgartner, Bäumgartner
French surname22 records spelled Baumgärtner3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Switzerland, Spain
Languages: French, Catalan
Also written Baumgartner
Czech surname9 records spelled Baumgärtner5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States, Switzerland
Languages: Czech, Slovak
Also written Baumgartner, Baumgartnér
Hungarian surname8 records spelled Baumgärtner3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Hungary, Switzerland, Slovenia, United States
Also written Baumgartner, Baumgártner
Italian surname3 records spelled Baumgärtner2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Italy
Also written Baumgartner
Russian surname2 records spelled Baumgärtner8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, United States, Switzerland, Ukraine
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Also written Baumgartner, Баумгартнер, Baumgártner, Баумгартнэр

10 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Baumgärtner is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In German, Berufsname zu Baumgarten/Baumgartner; Belege 3561. Die Karte zeigt Haupttonvokalismus mit a/ä/e-Variation.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Umlautvariante zu Baumgartner aus mhd. boumgarte; zeigt die regionale Varianz a/ä/e vor -er. 3561 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Berufsname: Obst-/Gemüsegärtner.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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●

Albrecht Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1743DEGerman historian
Adam Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtnerb. 1759DEGerman lawyer, bookseller and writer (1759-1843)
Karl Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1798DEGerman physician (1798–1886)
Georg August Baumgärtnerb. 1869DEGerman contributing editor and writer
Willy Baumgärtnerb. 1890DEGerman footballer (1890-1953)
Fritz Baumgärtnerb. 1897DEGerman politician (1897-1957)
Alfred Clemens Baumgärtnerb. 1928DEGerman specialist in literature and author of youth literature
Jürgen Baumgärtnerb. 1973DEGerman politician
Lisa Baumgärtnerb. 1987DEGerman badminton player
Alexej Baumgärtnerb. 1988DEGerman speed skater

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●

Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Baumgärtner
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	181	#6,817
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	13	#70,187
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)	2026	12	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	12	#118,837
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)	2026	8	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	8	#149,742
BE Belgium	Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)	2008	3	#123,614
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—
DE Germany	Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1	—	—	—

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Baumgärtner?: We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Baumgärtner (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Baumgärtner have the most bearers?: Baumgärtner is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled baumgartner.
Where is Baumgärtner most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baumgärtner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 776 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
How common is Baumgärtner compared with other names?: In Germany, Baumgärtner is the 228th most common surname of 734,811 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Baumgärtner mean?: Recorded meaning: Deutscher Familienname zu Baum + Gärtner; zeigt die Vokalvariation a/ä in -gartner.

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Baumgärtner” — the 228th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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