Find out how popular the last name Ullmann is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Ullmann.

Ullmann, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Ullmann surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Ullmann in America

Ullmann is the 24260th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Ullmann surname appeared 1,034 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Ullmann.

We can also compare 2010 data for Ullmann to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Ullmann

The surname Ullmann has its origins in Germany, traceable as far back as the 13th century. It is derived from the old Germanic words "ulle" meaning wool or woolen cloth, and "mann" meaning man, suggesting the name may have originally referred to a wool merchant or someone involved in the wool trade.

The earliest recorded instance of the name appears in the Codex Diplomaticus, a collection of historical documents from Saxony, where a certain Konrad Ullmann is mentioned in a document dated 1284. This indicates the name was already well-established in the region by the late medieval period.

During the 16th century, variations of the spelling such as Ulman and Uhlmann can be found in records from various parts of Germany, including Bavaria, Saxony, and Swabia. This suggests the name had spread across different regions by this time.

Notable historical figures with the surname Ullmann include Johannes Ullmann, a German humanist scholar and mathematician born in 1508 who published works on arithmetic and geometry. Another early bearer of the name was Konrad Ullmann, a 16th-century Lutheran theologian from Saxony.

In the 18th century, Johann Christoph Ullmann, born in 1705, was a renowned German jurist and legal scholar who served as a professor of law at the University of Göttingen. His son, Karl Christian Ullmann, born in 1759, was also a respected legal scholar and writer.

One of the most famous individuals with the surname Ullmann was Victor Ullmann, an Austrian composer and conductor born in 1898. Tragically, he perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, but his works, including the opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis, have been revived and celebrated in recent decades.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Ullmann

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Ullmann.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Ullmann was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Ullmann has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Ullmann was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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