Luehrs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Liider (see Lueder)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Luehrs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 710Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 34Kas Lührs
- AUAustralia≈1 in 110Kfew recordsas Luhrs
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 Luehrs 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
- 199 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 522K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,400 named Lührs, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Luhrs in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Lührs in DE Germany.
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)patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Liider (see Lueder). Luetkemeyer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Luehrs is found
(measured from records)Luehrs 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 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Lührs | 65 |
| US United States | 750as Luhrs | 1 in 444K | 768 | Luhrs | 199 |
| AU Australia | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Luhrs | 64 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 515K | — | Luhrs | 18 |
| IN India | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Luhrs | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Luehrs | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Luhrs | 18 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈1 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Luhrs | 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. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Otto Luehrsb. 1851USAmerican farmer and politician (1851-1934)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Luehrs come from?
- patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Liider (see Lueder). Luetkemeyer Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Luehrs mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from a reduced form of the personal name Liider (see Lueder).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Luehrs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.4 thousand people named Lührs in Germany, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Australia, United Kingdom and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Luehrs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 750 people named Luhrs in 2010, about 1 in 444 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luehrsThe 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, “Luehrs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.