Storr

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: from ON stórr ‘big’; first attested Geoffrey, John Stor 1200 P (Norfolk)

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

Storr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 284K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DKDenmark1 in 86K
  • USUnited States1 in 669K

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 Storr 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.

United States (measured from records)

497 people, 2010

Sources
67 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

Denmark

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stoerr 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)

from ON stórr ‘big’; first attested Geoffrey, John Stor 1200 P (Norfolk)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

How Storr is read(measured from records)

Storr 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.

  • English80%

    from ON stórr ‘big’; first attested Geoffrey, John Stor 1200 P (Norfolk)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    A great man; Old Norse

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • German7.2%

    Familienname aus persönlichem Merkmal: Übername zu 'starr/störrisch' oder 'steif'; Bearer Count 310.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

    Wohl Übername zu mhd. storre; vermutlich für einen groben/rohen Menschen. Bearer counts/densities cited for PLZ 557, 247 and 864.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Storr 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 Storr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States4971 in 669K703Stoerr42
DE Germany≈280 est.≈1 in 284KlistedStorr67
DK Denmark681 in 86K68——
ES Spain101 in 5M10—2
SE Sweden91 in 1.1M9—2
CH Switzerland7as Stoerr1 in 1.2M7Storr3

497 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling storr. 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-5 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Storr is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, United Kingdom, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Storř

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Сторр

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Storr 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.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a plant of the genus Carex

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

1700180019002000Gottlob Christian Storr, b. 1746Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr, b. 1749Otto Storr, b. 1907Catherine Storr, b. 1913Anthony Storr, b. 1920Robert Storr, b. 1949Andreas Storr, b. 1968Stefan Storr, b. 1968Jamie Storr, b. 1975

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 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Storr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020703#34,665
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000558#37,534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010497#43,438
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—68#7,936
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—10#120,154
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#41,635
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)

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 Storr mean, and where does it come from?
from ON stórr ‘big’; first attested Geoffrey, John Stor 1200 P (Norfolk) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Storr have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 497 people named Storr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoerr.
Where is Storr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Storr is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 86 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Storr?
In the United States, the national register counted 497 people named Storr in 2010, about 1 in 669 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, “Storr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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