Dörr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: singular imperative of dörren
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dœʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dörr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 55K
- USUnited States1 in 57K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 352 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dorr in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
singular imperative of dörren
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dörr counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Dorr | 3 |
| DE Germany | #560 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | listed | Dörr | 94 |
| US United States | — | 5,814 | 1 in 57K | 5.8K | Dorr | 352 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,206 | 1 in 176K | 1.2K | Dorr | 53 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Dorr | 68 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Dörr | 23 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Dorr | 20 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Dörr 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, Übername zu ahd. durri, mhd. durre, dürre ‘dürr, trocken, mager’; auch entrundet als Dirr/Derr. 6955 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname; Karte zeigt o/u- und ö/ü-Vokalvariation der Schreibungen. 6955 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Swedish, door; portal of entry into a building or room, the opening in a wall through which one can walk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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(measured from records)
- Wilhelm Dörrb. 1881DEGerman discus thrower (1881-1955)
- Gustav Dörrb. 1887DEGerman flying ace (1887–1928)
- Christoph Dörrb. 1901DEGerman politician (1901-1972)
- Friedrich Dörrb. 1908DEGerman Catholic theologian and hymnwriter (1908–1993)
- Wilhelm Dörrb. 1921DEGerman SS non-commissioned officer and concentration camp guard (1921-1945)
- Ilona Dörrb. 1948DEGerman politician
- Karl Dörrb. 1949DEGerman politician
- Wolfgang Dörrb. 1959DEGerman radiobiologist
- Klaus Dörrb. 1961DEGerman theatre director
- Cornelia Dörrb. 1977DEGerman actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dörr mean, and where does it come from?
- singular imperative of dörren Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dörr?
- A machine transcription gives /dœʁ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Dörr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Dörr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dorr.
- How common is the name Dörr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,814 people named Dörr in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
- How common is Dörr compared with other names?
- In Germany, Dörr is the 560th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%B6rrThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Dörr” — the 560th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.