Löff
surname · Latin script
Löff is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ornamental name from Ibv ‘leaf’.
- USUnited States1 in 999K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 47K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 107K
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 Löff 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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Loff in US United States, ZA South Africa, DE Germany and 1 more and Loeff in NL Netherlands.
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)
ornamental name from Ibv ‘leaf’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Löff 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Loff | 21 |
| BR Brazil | 728 | 1 in 291K | 728 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 333 | 1 in 999K | 356 | Loff | 147 |
| NL Netherlands | 285as Loeff | 1 in 61K | 285 | Loeff | 43 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 320K | — | Loff | 49 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Loff | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 44 | 1 in 133K | 44 | — | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Melanie Löffb. 1875ATHolocaust victim (born 1875)
- Jan Löffb. 1895CZHolocaust victim (born 1895)
- Irena Löffováb. 1904BYnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1904)
- Kurt Löffb. 1929ATHolocaust victim (born 1929)
- Raquel Löff da Silvab. 1995BRBrazilian-Portuguese volleyball 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).
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 Löff mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name from Ibv ‘leaf’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Löff have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Löff in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loff.
- How common is the name Löff?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 728 people named Löff, about 1 in 291 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B6ffThe 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, “Löff”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.