Loor
surname · Latin script
Meaning: praise
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/looɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loor is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country, where it is the 20th most common surname.
- ECEcuador1 in 180(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 434K
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.
- Ecuador (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 117 (measured from records)
- 1 in 180 (inferred from the name graph)
93,871 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
praise
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loor 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | #20 | 93,871 | 1 in 180 | 94K | Loor | 78 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,775 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Loor | 74 |
| US United States | — | 766 | 1 in 434K | 1K | Loor | 117 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Loor | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 170K | — | Loor | 13 |
| VE Venezuela | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Loor | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 195 | 1 in 89K | 195 | Loor | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 21 | Loor | 7 |
93,871 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Loor 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, Toponymischer Familienname; wie Lohr, ggf. zu 'Loh' oder zu ahd. *(h)lār(i), altsächs. (h)lār. Bearer count: 54.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, u.a. als Patronym zu Laurentius gedeutet; 54 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In roa-opt, praise; worship (devotion to a deity)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, praise (commendation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kw, moon
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)
- Friedl Loorb. 1919ATAustrian actress
- Eudoro Loor Rivadeneirab. 1938ECEcuadorian politician
- Viljar Loorb. 1953EEEstonian volleyball player (1953–2011)
- Tatiana Loorb. 1991ECbeauty pageant winner
- Luis Loorb. 1994ECEcuadorian association football player
- Dayanara Peraltab. 1996ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian singer and actress (born 1996)
- Andy LoorLULuxembourg singer
- Alfredo LoorECresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9265-5367
- Shyrabel LoorECPolitician in Ecuador
- Juan J. LoorUSresearcher
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 29 sources across 17 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
- What does the name Loor mean, and where does it come from?
- praise Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Loor?
- A machine transcription gives /looɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Loor have the most bearers?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Loor, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loor.
- Where is Loor most common?
- Loor is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 180 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Loor?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 93,871 people named Loor in 2024, about 1 in 180 residents.
- How common is Loor compared with other names?
- In Ecuador, Loor is the 20th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loorThe 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, “Loor” — the 20th most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.