Möhn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from place name in Trier region
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Möhn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 106K
- NONorway1 in 7.6K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mohn in US United States, DE Germany, NO Norway and 4 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)
from place name in Trier region
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Möhn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Mohn | 1 |
| IN India | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 233K | — | Mohn | 16 |
| US United States | — | 3,129 | 1 in 106K | 3.3K | Mohn | 282 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Mohn | 103 |
| NO Norway | — | 724 | 1 in 7.6K | 724 | Mohn | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 239 | 1 in 35K | 239 | Mohn | 25 |
| BZ Belize | #289 | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Mohn | 1 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Möhn 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 gmw-cfr, an older woman; not implying decrepitness, but having a mildly contemptuous tone
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Möhn mean, and where does it come from?
- from place name in Trier region Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Möhn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Möhn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mohn.
- Where is Möhn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Möhn is densest in Norway — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Möhn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,129 people named Möhn in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
- How common is Möhn compared with other names?
- In Belize, Möhn is the 289th most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B6hnThe 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, “Möhn” — the 289th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.