Mohn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from mhd. man/mäne and related forms; also in compounds like Mohnkopf
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/moːn/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Mohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 35K
- DEGermany≈1 in 36K
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 Mohn 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
3,129 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)from mhd. man/mäne and related forms; also in compounds like Mohnkopf
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mohn 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 | — | 3,129 | 1 in 106K | 3.3K | Mohn | 282 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Mohn | 103 |
| NO Norway | — | 724 | 1 in 7.6K | 724 | Mohn | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Mohn | 38 |
| IN India | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 18 | Mohn | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 239 | 1 in 35K | 239 | Mohn | 25 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Mohn | 10 |
| BZ Belize | #289 | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Mohn | 1 |
3,129 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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the in-instate-surnames-bystate register. 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)Mohn is also recorded in 2 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. metonymic occupational name for a grower of poppies, from Middle High German man ‘poppy’. 2. from a short form of the Germanic personal name Monrad, composed of the elements mun ‘spirit’, ‘thought’ + rat ‘counsel’. 3. variant of German Mohn (see Moehn).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, poppy (Papaver)
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)- Henrik Mohnb. 1835NONorwegian astronomer and meteorologist (1835-1916)
- Paul E.A. Mohnb. 1898SE(1898-1957)
- Albert Henrik Mohnb. 1918NONorwegian writer (1918-1999)
- Reinhard Mohnb. 1921DEGerman businessman and philanthropist (1921-2009)
- Christian Mohnb. 1926NONorwegian ski jumper (1926-2018)
- Liz Mohnb. 1941DEGerman businesswoman and philanthropist
- Jarl Mohnb. 1951USAmerican business executive
- Lothar Mohnb. 1954DEGerman musician
- Christoph Mohnb. 1965DEGerman businessman
- Tirill Mohnb. 1975NONorwegian composer, singer and violinist
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 16 countries.
Reference works 6
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mohn mean, and where does it come from?
- from mhd. man/mäne and related forms; also in compounds like Mohnkopf Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What are other forms of the name Mohn?
- In the etymology graph, Мак is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mohn?
- In German /moːn/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mohn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Mohn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mohn.
- Where is Mohn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mohn is densest in Norway — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,129 people named Mohn in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Mohn compared with other names?
- In Belize, Mohn is the 289th most common surname of 11,408 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/mohnThe 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, “Mohn” — the 289th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.