Röhrig

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Röhrig is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from place/settlement names and dwelling/landscape features with Rohr 'reed'; variants include R(ö/oe)hrig and R(ö/oe)rig; bearer count not given.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 334K
  • USUnited States1 in 273Kas Roehrig

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 Röhrig 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈33,000 people, est.

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Sudan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

RoehrigLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rohrig in BR Brazil, PY Paraguay, CN China and 2 more and Roehrig in US United States.

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)hrig and R(ö/oe)rig; bearer count not given.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Röhrig 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.

Where Röhrig is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈33,000 est.≈1 in 42K—Rohrig2
DE Germany≈4,600 est.≈1 in 17KlistedRöhrig83
SD Sudan≈4,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Rohrig1
US United States1,217as Roehrig1 in 273K1.2KRoehrig197
AO Angola≈710 est.≈1 in 46K—Rohrig1
BR Brazil6331 in 334K633Rohrig45
PY Paraguay≈98 est.≈1 in 73K—Rohrig7

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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Röhrig is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rohrig

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Rohrig

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Rohrig, Rőhrig

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Rohrig

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Rohrig

  • Danish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Paraguay

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Rohrig

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Rohrig

12 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Röhrig is also recorded in 3 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. 3258 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 -ig-Form; 3258 Bearer.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Familienname; ch/g-Varianz im Auslaut nach i: Röhrig/Röhrich.

    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)

188019001920194019601980Walter Röhrig, b. 1887Rudolf Röhrig, b. 1903Wolfram Röhrig, b. 1916Hans Röhrig, b. 1919Josef Röhrig, b. 1925Theo Röhrig, b. 1936Udo Röhrig, b. 1943Tilman Röhrig, b. 1945Volkmar Röhrig, b. 1952Röhrig Géza, b. 1967

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 9 sources across 5 countries.

Reference works 3

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 Röhrig 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)hrig and R(ö/oe)rig; bearer count not given. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
In which country does Röhrig have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Röhrig in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rohrig.
How common is the name Röhrig?
In Brazil, the national register counted 633 people named Röhrig, about 1 in 334 thousand residents.

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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, “Röhrig”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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