Stöhr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname: wohl zu mhd./mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Stöhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 27Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 52K
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 Stöhr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,200 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stoehr in US United States, CH Switzerland, AG Antigua & Barbuda and Stohr in BB Barbados.
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)Berufsname: wohl zu mhd./mnd. stör(e), stor(e) 'Stör'; Belege: 142+4280.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Stöhr is found
(measured from records)Stöhr 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 | #666 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Stöhr | 110 |
| US United States | — | 1,694as Stoehr | 1 in 196K | 1.8K | Stoehr | 223 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Stöhr | 21 |
| FR France | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 42 | Stöhr | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 292 | 1 in 725K | 292 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 162 | 1 in 52K | 162 | Stoehr | 13 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #562 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Stoehr | 1 |
| BB Barbados | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Stohr | 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)Stöhr 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, from a fish name; compare Stör
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Fischn. (x Ster)
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Richard Stöhrb. 1874ATAustrian composer (1874–1967)
- Henry Stöhrb. 1960DEEast German judoka
- Hannes Stöhrb. 1970DEGerman film director and screenwriter
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stöhr mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname: wohl zu mhd./mnd.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Stöhr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Stöhr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stöhr. After it come United States, Austria, France and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Stöhr?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 292 people named Stöhr, about 1 in 725 thousand residents.
- How common is Stöhr compared with other names?
- In Germany, Stöhr is the 666th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%B6hrThe 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, “Stöhr” — the 666th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.