Lohr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname from the leather trade; bearer count 2528 (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lohr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Lohr is also written เลอเร in Thai.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 34Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 51K
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. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lohr in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Locally spelled Löhr in DE Germany and Loehr in AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where the surname Lohr is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #476 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Löhr | 134 |
| US United States | — | 6,506 | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Lohr | 328 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lohr | 42 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lohr | 54 |
| FR France | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 162K | 48 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Lohr | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 204as Ler | 1 in 27K | 204 | Lohr | 7 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Loehr | 1 |
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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)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)- Marie Lohrb. 1890AUactress (1890-1975)
- Aaron Lohrb. 1976USAmerican actor and singer
- Tiffany Tatumb. 1997HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic 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)29 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lohr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Lohr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled löhr. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lohrThe 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, “Lohr” — the 476th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.