Strother
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person who lives in a marshy overgrown area’, or from places called Strother/Struther/Struthers in Scotland and northern England, from Middle English strother ‘marshy area overgrown with brushwood’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɹɑðɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Strother is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 46K(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 5.1K
- ISIceland≈1 in 22K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person who lives in a marshy overgrown area’, or from places called Strother/Struther/Struthers in Scotland and northern England, from Middle English strother ‘marshy area overgrown with brushwood’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Strother 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #351 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Strother | 1 |
| CN China | — | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Strother | 5 |
| US United States | — | 7,170 | 1 in 46K | 7.2K | Strother | 359 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Strother | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Strother | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Strother | 32 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Strother | 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. 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)
Strother is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Strother (Durham), or ‘dweller at the place overgrown with brushwood’ (OE strōðer); first attested Henry del Strolhre 1363 Misc (Nb)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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)
- Edward Strotherb. 1675English physician
- George Strotherb. 1783USAmerican politician (1783-1840)
- James F. Strotherb. 1811USAmerican politician (1811-1860)
- David Hunter Strotherb. 1816USAmerican author and illustrator (1816–1888)
- James F. Strotherb. 1868USAmerican politician and lawyer (1868-1930)
- Cynthia Strotherb. 1935USAmerican singer
- Raymond Strotherb. 1940USDemocratic political consultant
- Deon Strotherb. 1972USAmerican football player
- Billy Strotherb. 1982USAmerican football player
- Ann Strotherb. 1983USAmerican basketball player-coach
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 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.2K | #4,910 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7K | #4,634 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.9K | #4,956 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Strother mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person who lives in a marshy overgrown area’, or from places called Strother/Struther/Struthers in Scotland and northern England, from Middle English strother ‘marshy area overgrown with brushwood’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Strother?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɹɑðɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Strother have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Strother in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strother.
- How common is the name Strother?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,170 people named Strother in 2010, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
- How common is Strother compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Strother is the 351st most common surname of 22,571 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, “Strother” — the 351st most common surname in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.