Neuer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflected (masculine) form of Neu (as in neuer Mann ‘new man’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈnɔɪɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neuer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 214K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- 1 in 214K (inferred from the name graph)
261 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflected (masculine) form of Neu (as in neuer Mann ‘new man’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neuer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 261 | 1 in 1.3M | 291 | Neuer | 67 |
| CZ Czechia | 50 | 1 in 214K | 50 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | Neuer | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | Neuer | 1 |
261 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Neuer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, comparative degree of neu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Zu 'neu' mit Suffix -er; morphologischer Ableitungstyp. Bearer count: 487.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Aus mhd. niuwe/neu; Übername mit -er-Bildung, oft für den Neuen/Jüngeren. Bearer count: 487.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In enm, alternative typography of never
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)
- Thomas Neuerb. 1768DEGerman engraver (wood) (1768–1850)
- Wendelin Neuerb. 1810DEWürttembergian merchant, city councilor in Rottenburg and member of the state parliament as well as participant in the November Uprising
- Arnold Neuerb. 1881ATHolocaust victim (born 1881)
- Alexander Neuerb. 1883ATAustrian physician and psychoanalyst
- Ruth Neuer Puckettb. 1917ATAustrian-born sociologist
- Werner Neuerb. 1951DEGerman theologian
- Andreas Neuerb. 1953DEEast German sport cyclist
- Thomas Neuerb. 1964DEGerman chess player
- Hillel Neuerb. 1970CACanadian activist
- Manuel Neuerb. 1986DEGerman association football player
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 291 | #72,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 261 | #74,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 238 | #75,466 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 50 | #29,256 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 50 | #10,598 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 23 | #33,003 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,397 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #371,603 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #366,024 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Neuer mean, and where does it come from?
- inflected (masculine) form of Neu (as in neuer Mann ‘new man’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Neuer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnɔɪɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Neuer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 261 people named Neuer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neuer.
- Where is Neuer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neuer is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 214 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Neuer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 261 people named Neuer in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neuerThe 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, “Neuer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.