Behmer Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Your Behmer ancestor may well appear as Behm in earlier records. The name is generally explained as “Someone who came from Bohemia (home of the Boii)”. Behmer adds -er to the root of Behm, a common way of forming related surnames. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Behmer with 329 bearers, at rank 61,123. It sits within the 100,000 most common last names in the country.

Arms linked to Behm and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Behmer surname pack.