Röhrich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from place/settlement names and dwelling/landscape features with Rohr 'reed'; variants include R(ö/oe)hrich; bearer count not given
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʁøːʁɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Röhrich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 471Kas Roehrich
- ATAustria≈1 in 198K
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 Röhrich 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Roehrich in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy 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)
Toponymic surname from place/settlement names and dwelling/landscape features with Rohr 'reed'; variants include R(ö/oe)hrich; bearer count not given.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Röhrich 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 | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 54K | listed | Röhrich | 63 |
| US United States | — | 706as Roehrich | 1 in 471K | 706 | Roehrich | 155 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Roehrich | 3 |
| FR France | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 891K | 5 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 5 | Roehrich | 13 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 225K | — | Roehrich | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Röhrich | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 43 | 1 in 249K | 43 | — | — |
| SH St. Helena | #164 | — | — | — | Roehrich | 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; the dfa-band-2 register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Röhrich is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Wohnstättenname zu mhd. rorach/rœrach/rorich 'Röhricht', evtl. Herkunftsname zu Röhrig oder Roringen; auch aus Rufname Roderich möglich. 998 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Varianz ch/g im Auslaut nach i; wohl zu röhre/rohr bezogen, mit -ich-Form; 998 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
- Lutz Röhrichb. 1922DEGerman ethnologist, specialist in literature and germanist (1922–2006)
- Werner Röhrichb. 1929DEGerman politician (1929–2003)
- Wilfried Röhrichb. 1936DEGerman political scientist (1936–2024)
- Michal Röhrichb. 1960CZCzech guitarist
- Volker Röhrichb. 1965DEGerman 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 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 43 | #32,764 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Röhrich mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from place/settlement names and dwelling/landscape features with Rohr 'reed'; variants include R(ö/oe)hrich; bearer count not given. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Röhrich?
- A machine transcription gives /ʁøːʁɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Röhrich have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Röhrich in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled röhrich.
- How common is the name Röhrich?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 43 people named Röhrich, about 1 in 249 thousand residents.
- How common is Röhrich compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Röhrich is the 164th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/r%C3%B6hrichThe 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, “Röhrich” — the 164th most common surname in St. Helena. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.