Buhr
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Buhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Artikelose Form zu 'Bauer'; 1727 Träger.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 136K
- LYLibya≈1 in 35K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 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)
Artikelose Form zu 'Bauer'; 1727 Träger. Zeigt die kürzere, ohne Artikel gebrauchte morphologische Variante.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buhr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Buhr | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Buhr | 131 |
| US United States | 2,452 | 1 in 136K | 2.5K | Buhr | 267 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Buhr | 14 |
| CA Canada | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Buhr | 68 |
| LY Libya | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Buhr | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 181 | 1 in 56K | 181 | Buhr | 16 |
| DK Denmark | 90 | 1 in 65K | 90 | Buhr | 33 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Buhr 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 German, Norddeutsche Varianten zu Buhr; zeigt -r/-rs/-er/-ur-Variation. 16 Typen/3626 Token insgesamt; Typ Buhr: 9 Typen/2231 Token.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Herbert Buhrb. 1902DEGerman botanist (1902-1968)
- Manfred Buhrb. 1927DEGerman philosopher (1927–2008)
- Wolfgang Buhrb. 1932DEGerman politician (1932–2016)
- Doug Buhrb. 1949CACanadian ice hockey player (1949–2006)
- Glenn Buhrb. 1954CACanadian composer and pianist
- Liane Buhrb. 1956DEEast German coxswain
- Andreas Buhrb. 1960DEGerman author
- Claus Buhrb. 1972DKDanish journalist
- Buhrb. 1974BRBrazilian singer and actor
- Silke Buhrb. 2000DEGerman university teacher
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 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,622 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,638 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 181 | #4,542 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 90 | #6,102 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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 Buhr mean?
- Recorded meaning: Artikelose Form zu 'Bauer'; 1727 Träger.
- In which country does Buhr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Buhr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buhr.
- How common is the name Buhr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,452 people named Buhr in 2010, about 1 in 136 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buhrThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Buhr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.