Struwe
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a northwestern German, especially Westphalian, kind of yeast-based pancake, comparable to a crumpet, traditionally eaten on Fridays, now especially on Good Friday
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃtʁuːvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Struwe is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 41K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- SESweden1 in 123K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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)
a northwestern German, especially Westphalian, kind of yeast-based pancake, comparable to a crumpet, traditionally eaten on Fridays, now especially on Good Friday
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Struwe 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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Struwe | 88 |
| US United States | 212 | 1 in 1.6M | 234 | Struwe | 109 |
| SE Sweden | 83 | 1 in 123K | 83 | Struwe | 10 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Struwe | 6 |
| PL Poland | 39 | 1 in 982K | 29 | Struwe | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 34 | 1 in 173K | 34 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 29 | 1 in 596K | 29 | Struwe | 8 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 2 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Struwe 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, Familienname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: ‘struppig, rau, zerzaust’ (v. a. Haar/Äußeres); Trägerzahlen: 890+77, 880+34, 42+88, 103, 33+21.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Personenname aus einem persönlichen Merkmal: wohl zu 'struw/strub' = struppig, rau, borstiges Haar; kein Berufsname.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Familienname aus der b/f/v/w-Variation; Karte 59 zeigt die Schreibvarianten Straub/Struve/Struwe/Strufe. 967 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Übername nach persönlichem Merkmal: struppiges/struppiges Haar, „der Strubbelige“; 2168 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Variante zu strûbe/strûf; labiale Variation mit -w-. 967 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Michail Alexandrowitsch Struweb. 1890FRRussian writer and poet (1890-1949)
- Alfred Struweb. 1927DEactor (1927–1998)
- Ruth Struweb. 1946DEGerman prehistorian
- Elżbieta Struweb. 1953PLPolish librarian
- Michael Struweb. 1955DEGerman mathematician
- Jochen Struweb. 1956DEGerman university teacher
- Catharina Struweb. 1962DEGerman actress
- Lena Struweb. 1967USSwedish born American botanist and university teacher (1967 - )
- Filip Struweb. 1973SESwedish journalist
- Inger Struweb. 2004DEGerman 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 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 234 | #85,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 212 | #87,663 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 193 | #89,172 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 83 | #8,337 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 34 | #14,875 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 29 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29 | #72,232 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 29 | #41,945 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #138,466 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Struwe mean, and where does it come from?
- a northwestern German, especially Westphalian, kind of yeast-based pancake, comparable to a crumpet, traditionally eaten on Fridays, now especially on Good Friday Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Struwe?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃtʁuːvə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Struwe have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Struwe in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled struwe.
- How common is the name Struwe?
- In the United States, the national register counted 212 people named Struwe in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/struweThe 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, “Struwe”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.