Röhrl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from place/settlement names and dwelling/landscape features with Rohr 'reed'; variants include R(ö/oe)hrl; bearer count not given (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Röhrl 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)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
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 Röhrl 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)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Roehrl in US United States, AU Australia.
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)hrl; bearer count not given.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Röhrl is found
(measured from records)Röhrl 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 | Röhrl | 50 |
| US United States | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 3.9M | listed | Roehrl | 58 |
| AT Austria | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Röhrl | 11 |
| AU Australia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Roehrl | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 8 | 1 in 1.3M | 8 | — | — |
| NO Norway | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Röhrl | 4 |
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: the dfa-band-4 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)Röhrl 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, toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape feature: diminutive of Rohr ‘reed/cane’, i.e. from a place with reeds.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname; diminutive from Rohr/Röhr(e), ultimately from mhd. rōr 'Schilfrohr, Schilf' (reed).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a place name/dwelling name with Rohr/Röhre 'reed, reed bed'; 659 bearers.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymischer Familienname aus einem Orts- oder Wohnstättennamen bzw. Landschaftsmerkmal 'Rohr' (Röhricht/Reet); Bearer count: 659.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, zu mhd. ror 'Rohr, Schilf, Röhricht'; 649 Belege. Muster: Diminutiv -l.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Wilhelm Röhrlb. 1921DEGerman politician
- Helmut Röhrlb. 1927DEGerman mathematician (1927-2014)
- Walter Röhrlb. 1947DEGerman rally driver
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Röhrl 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)hrl; bearer count not given. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Röhrl?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Röhrl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled röhrl. After it come United States, Austria, Australia and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Röhrl?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 11 people named Röhrl in 2024, about 1 in 764 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, “Röhrl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.