Lauter

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Lauter is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English63%

  Clear.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German21%

  often from place names; also 'pure, clear'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  nothing but, just, a lot of

  as a word·A Frequency Dictionary of German

  sincere; honorable; of integrity; correct

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Lauter is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States

  Also written Läuter

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Läuter

• Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, United States

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Läuter

• Czech surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia

  Also written Läuter

37 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.

Lauter 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.

• topographic name and habitational name, from a common stream name meaning ‘clear’, from Middle High German hlutra.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

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.

• Estée Lauderb. 1906USnot in their usual nameAmerican businesswoman (1906–2004)
• Harry Lauterb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914-1990)
• Ed Lauterb. 1938USAmerican film and television actor (1938-2013)

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).

27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Lauter come from?

often from place names; also 'pure, clear' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

What does the name Lauter mean?

In English, Clear.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Lauter?

Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Lauter in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lauter. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and France; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Lauter?

In the United States, the national register counted 593 people named Lauter in 2010, about 1 in 561 thousand residents.