Ehre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. era 'honor'; often also from HEER
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/eɐ̯ːʁə/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Ehre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 410Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 440Kfew records
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.3Mfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 414K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ahd. era 'honor'; often also from HEER
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ehre is found
(measured from records)Ehre 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 | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 414K | — | Ehre | 51 |
| FR France | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 439K | 12 | Ehre | 77 |
| US United States | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 8.3M | listed | Ehre | 33 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 9.1M | — | Ehre | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | — | Ehre | 2 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 2 | — | — |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Ehre is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, honor
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, honour
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, plural of Eher
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)- Berta Ehreb. 1866CZHolocaust victim (born 1866)
- Ida Ehreb. 1900DEAustrian-German actress
- Thea Ehreb. 1999ATAustrian actress (born 1999)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ehre mean, and where does it come from?
- from ahd. era 'honor'; often also from HEER Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Ehre?
- In German /eɐ̯ːʁə/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ehre?
- Mondonomo estimates about 202 people named Ehre in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ehre. After it come France, United States, Nigeria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ehre?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4 people named Ehre in 2026, about 1 in 9.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ehre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ehreThe 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, “Ehre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.