Bohr
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Synonym of Bohr radius
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bohr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 28K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 187K
- DKDenmark1 in 43K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
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:
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)
occupational name for a carpenter/joiner; from drill/borer
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bohr is read(measured from records)
Bohr 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.
- English64%
Synonym of Bohr radius.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Aage N., Danish physicist (Nobel
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Danish physicist (Nobel 1922)
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German21%
occupational name for a carpenter/joiner; from drill/borer
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Bohr 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 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Bohr | 102 |
| US United States | 1,779 | 1 in 187K | 1.8K | Bohr | 225 |
| PH Philippines | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Bohr | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Bohr | 43 |
| IT Italy | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 236K | — | Bohr | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 135 | 1 in 43K | 135 | — | 4 |
| AT Austria | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Bohr | 10 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Bohr | 1 |
| LY Libya | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Bohr | 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Bohr 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 Polish, bohrium (transuranic chemical element (symbol Bh) with an atomic number of 107)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, danski fizičar, doprinio je razvoju kvantne fizike, opisao strukturu atoma (Bohrov model); Nobelova nagrada 1922.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Christian Bohrb. 1855DKDanish physician (1855-1911)
- Ellen Bohrb. 1860mother of Niels and Harald Bohr
- Niels Bohrb. 1885DKDanish physicist (1885–1962)
- Harald Bohrb. 1887DKDanish mathematician and footballer (1887–1951)
- Margrethe Bohrb. 1890DKDanish editor, transcriber
- José Bohrb. 1901CLChilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter (1901-1994)
- Erik Bohrb. 1920DKDanish civil engineer (1920-1990)
- Aage Niels Bohrb. 1922DKDanish physicist (1922–2009)
- Ernest Bohrb. 1924DKDanish lawyer and field hockey player (1924–2018)
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr.b. 1940MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor (1940–2011)
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)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,490 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,694 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 135 | #4,033 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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
- Where does the name Bohr come from?
- occupational name for a carpenter/joiner; from drill/borer Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bohr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Bohr mean?
- In English, Synonym of Bohr radius.
- In which country does Bohr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Bohr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bohr.
- How common is the name Bohr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,779 people named Bohr in 2010, about 1 in 187 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bohr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bohrThe 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, “Bohr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.