Erhart
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Germanic stem *hari- 'army' and *hard- 'hard, strong'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈɝhɑɹt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Erhart is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 61K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 87K
- SISlovenia1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Erhart 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
3,882 named Earhart, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Earhart 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 the Germanic stem *hari- 'army' and *hard- 'hard, strong'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Erhart 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 3,882as Earhart | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Earhart | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 346 | 1 in 612K | 346 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 138 | 1 in 61K | 138 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 130 | 1 in 350K | 130 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 123 | 1 in 87K | 123 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 12 | 1 in 175K | 12 | — | — |
3,882 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michel Erhartb. 1440DEGerman sculptor (15./16. century)
- Gregor Erhartb. 1465DEGerman sculptor (c. 1465–1540)
- Charles F. Erhartb. 1821DEGerman businessman (1821–1891)
- Adolf Erhartb. 1926CZCzech linguist and educator
- Hannelore Erhartb. 1927DEGerman theologian (1927-2013)
- Alfred Erhartb. 1928DEGerman sculptor (1928–1984)
- Tomas Erhartb. 1959DEGerman cinematographer
- Peter Erhartb. 1960ATAustrian vionolist and music theorist
- Peter Erhartb. 1973ATAustrian-Swiss archivist, historian and exhibition curator
- Paul Erhartb. 1978DEresearcher
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,036 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,083 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 346 | #23,505 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 138 | #8,510 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 130 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 123 | #13,790 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 123 | #2,497 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 123 | #7,038 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12 | #17,855 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
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 Erhart mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Germanic stem *hari- 'army' and *hard- 'hard, strong' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Erhart?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɝhɑɹt/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Erhart have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.9 thousand people named Earhart, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Erhart most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Erhart is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 61 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Erhart?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 346 people named Erhart, about 1 in 612 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/erhartThe 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, “Erhart”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.