Löder

surname · Latin script

Löder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins: * Either an occupational surname for a carter, from an agent derivative of Middle English lode (“to load”), or a topographic surname from Middle English lode (“path, road, watercours.

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 87K
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 124K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,844 people, 2010

Sources
254 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)

Bermuda, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Loder in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and Loeder in BM Bermuda.

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)

Derivation of Löder: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Löder
  1. Middle Englishlode“path“path, road, watercourse”(measured from records)
  2. GermanLoder(measured from records)

Two main origins: * Either an occupational surname for a carter, from an agent derivative of Middle English lode (“to load”), or a topographic surname from Middle English lode (“path, road, watercourse”). * Borrowed from German Loder, an occupational surname for a weaver of woolen cloth, from Loden (“coarse woolen fabric”).

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Löder 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 Löder is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,8441 in 180K1.8KLoder254
DE Germany≈620 est.≈1 in 129K—Loder71
CA Canada≈600 est.≈1 in 63K—Loder106
GB United Kingdom≈530 est.≈1 in 124K—Loder94
AU Australia≈290 est.≈1 in 87K—Loder72
AT Austria≈220 est.≈1 in 41K—Loder29
BM Bermuda≈4 est.≈1 in 20K—Loeder2

1,844 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. 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)

Löder is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Loder

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)

Löder 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 Swedish, present indicative of löda

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Löder mean, and where does it come from?
Two main origins: * Either an occupational surname for a carter, from an agent derivative of Middle English lode (“to load”), or a topographic surname from Middle English lode (“path, road, watercours… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
In which country does Löder have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Löder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loder.
How common is the name Löder?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,844 people named Löder in 2010, about 1 in 180 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, “Löder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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