Lohr

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Occupational surname from the leather trade; bearer count 2528

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈɫɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lohr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 51K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 27K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lohr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈19,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
328 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

LohrLatin(measured from records)
เลอเรThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Löhr in DE Germany and Loehr in CD Congo - Kinshasa.

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)

Occupational surname from the leather trade; bearer count 2528.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lohr 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.

Where Lohr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈19,000 est.≈1 in 75K—Lohr3
US United States—6,5061 in 51K6.5KLohr328
DE Germany#476≈5,600 est.≈1 in 14K—Löhr134
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 42K—Loehr1
EG Egypt—≈960 est.≈1 in 109K—Lohr2
AT Austria—≈320 est.≈1 in 27K—Lohr32
NO Norway—204as Ler1 in 27K204Lohr7
FI Finland—≈110 est.≈1 in 50K31—4

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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lohr is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Löhr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Löhr

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Löhr

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Pakistan

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Löhr

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy

    Also written Löhr

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea

    Also written Löhr

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lohr is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, 1. from a short form of the personal name Lorenz. 2. (also Lohr): see Loehr. 3. habitational name from any of several places called Lohr in Bavaria and the Rhineland.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, Toponymischer Familienname; Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname, möglich zu 'Loh' oder zu Siedlungsnamen aus ahd. *(h)lār(i), altsächs. (h)lār. Bearer count: 2230.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

  • In German, Wohnstättenname; univerbierte Präposition + Lohr; morphologisch: -lohr. Belegt 25.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, u.a. als Patronym zu Laurentius gedeutet; 2230 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, Berufsname: Gerber; bearer count 2230+6.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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)

1850190019502000Erwin Lohr, b. 1880Marie Lohr, b. 1890Ina Lohr, b. 1903Peter Lohr, b. 1933Lot Lohr, b. 1963Ellen Lohr, b. 1965Robert Lohr, b. 1967Aaron Lohr, b. 1976Damian Lohr, b. 1993Tiffany Tatum, b. 1997

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)

FormalDear Lohr,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Lohr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020106.5K#5,348
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.5K#4,962
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020206.3K#5,364
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—28#35,970
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Lohr mean, and where does it come from?
Occupational surname from the leather trade; bearer count 2528. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
How do you pronounce Lohr?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lohr have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Lohr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lohr.
How common is the name Lohr?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,506 people named Lohr in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
How common is Lohr compared with other names?
In Germany, Lohr is the 476th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lohr” — the 476th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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