Ør

surname · Latin script

Meaning: gravel

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ør is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DKDenmark1 in 534K(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 265Mas Oer

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ør itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Denmark (measured from records)

11 people

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 534K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

gravel

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ør 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.

Where Ør is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DK Denmark111 in 534K11Ør7
IN India5as Oer1 in 265M5——
US United States——listed—4

11 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ør is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Libya

    Also written Øř, Øŕ, Ǿr, Ǿř, Øŗ

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Øř, Øŗ, Ǿr, Øŕ

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Øṛ, Øř

  • Bangla surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh

    Also written Øř

  • Spanish name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Ǿr, Ǿŕ, Ǿŗ

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ør 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, dizzy, woozy

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Ør
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—11#37,095

Reference works 1

  • 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 Ør mean, and where does it come from?
gravel Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Ør have the most bearers?
In Denmark, the national register counted about 11 people named Ør, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ør.
Where is Ør most common?
Ør is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 534 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ør?
In Denmark, the national register counted 11 people named Ør, about 1 in 534 thousand residents.

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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, “Ør”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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