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The Petermann surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,025 people carried this name — #24,431 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 285,700 people counted. That is up 6% from 970 in 2000.

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In Switzerland’s population statistics

741 people named Petermann live in Switzerland.

They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Vaud 131
Lucerne 121
Zurich 108
Neuchâtel 64
Jura 62
Bern 61
Aargau 53
Schwyz 22

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 307 people named Petermann.

17 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 37 départements, most often Moselle.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 17
Moselle 71
Bas-Rhin 42
Meuse 38
Haut-Rhin 27
Marne 19
Meurthe-et-Moselle 17
Paris 15
Seine-Maritime 11

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 58 people named Petermann live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 58

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In the Nordic population registers

42 people named Petermann is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 42

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Petermann,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Julius Heinrich Petermann
    Julius Heinrich Petermann 1801–1876 · orientalist
  • Karl Petermann
    Karl Petermann 1807–1866 · judge
  • Petermann 1250–1307 · local politician
  • Andreas Petermann 1535–1611 · Kreuzkantor
  • Hans Jakob Petermann 1674–1712
  • Georg Petermann 1710–1792 · writer

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).

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