Baumgaertner
surname · German · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Baumgaertner is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Switzerland it is the 24th most common surname. It appears chiefly in German and French, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ◐
across 15 countries
137K records
Official registry-verified
Switzerland
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Baumgartner in US United States, DE Germany, CH Switzerland and 17 more and Baumgärtner in ES Spain.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| 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 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German3.3K55%
- French1.1K19%
- English70812%
- Spanish63711%
- Portuguese1673%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 3,296 | 55% |
| French | 1,120 | 19% |
| English | 708 | 12% |
| Spanish | 637 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 167 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 17 |
| 1901 | 15 |
| 1911 | 18 |
| 1921 | 25 |
| 1931 | 36 |
| 1941 | 48 |
| 1951 | 50 |
| 1961 | 42 |
| 1971 | 36 |
| 1981 | 43 |
| 1991 | 37 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Albrecht Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1743DEnot in their usual nameGerman historian
- Adam Friedrich Gotthelf Baumgärtnerb. 1759DEnot in their usual nameGerman lawyer, bookseller and writer (1759-1843)
- Karl Heinrich Baumgärtnerb. 1798DEnot in their usual nameGerman physician (1798–1886)
- Georg August Baumgärtnerb. 1869DEnot in their usual nameGerman contributing editor and writer
- Willy Baumgärtnerb. 1890DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (1890-1953)
- Fritz Baumgärtnerb. 1897DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1897-1957)
- Alfred Clemens Baumgärtnerb. 1928DEnot in their usual nameGerman specialist in literature and author of youth literature
- Jürgen Baumgärtnerb. 1973DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Lisa Baumgärtnerb. 1987DEnot in their usual nameGerman badminton player
- Alexej Baumgärtnerb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman 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 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 76 | #77,671 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 63 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 50 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 43 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 42 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 17 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Baumgaertner?
- We estimate roughly 25 thousand people bear Baumgaertner (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Baumgaertner have the most bearers?
- Baumgaertner is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled baumgartner.
- Where is Baumgaertner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baumgaertner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 776 people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Baumgaertner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Baumgaertner is the 228th most common surname of 734,811 surnames recorded there.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . 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, “Baumgaertner” — the 228th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.