Lührs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronym zu ahd. liut/alsächs
/lyːɐ̯s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lührs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 444K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 109K
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
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (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)
Locally spelled Luhrs in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.
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)
Patronym zu ahd. liut/alsächs. liud 'Volk' oder ahd./alsächs. hlūt 'berühmt' + heri 'Heer'; westnd. Schwund von d in intervokalischer Stellung. Bearer count: 4297 tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lührs 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 42K | — | Lührs | 65 |
| US United States | 750 | 1 in 444K | 768 | Luhrs | 199 |
| AU Australia | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Luhrs | 64 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Luhrs | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 541K | — | Luhrs | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Luhrs | 18 |
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. 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)
- Albert Lührsb. 1804DEGerman theologian (1804–1871)
- Frida Lührsb. 1869DEGerman politician (1869–1941)
- Otto Pentzb. 1873CLnot in their usual nameChilean politician of German parentage
- Johannes Lührsb. 1888DEDr.-Ing. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover 1915
- Willi Lührsb. 1913DEGerman politician (1913-1974)
- Wilhelm Lührsb. 1928DEGerman author and archivist (1928–1992)
- Otto Lührsb. 1939DEGerman physicist
- Lasse Lührsb. 1996DEGerman triathlete (born 1996)
- Yannik Lührsb. 2003DEGerman footballer (born 2003)
- Silke LührsDEGerman 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 7 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Lührs?
- A machine transcription gives /lyːɐ̯s/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Lührs mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu ahd. liut/alsächs.
- In which country does Lührs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Lührs in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lührs.
- How common is the name Lührs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 750 people named Lührs in 2010, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%BChrsThe 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, “Lührs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.