Harre
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: nickname from OE hēarra ‘chief, lord’, sometimes a pet-form of Herebert; first attested Herre de Camera 1176 P (Nf)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhæɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Harre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 104K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 598K
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 76K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 76K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from OE hēarra ‘chief, lord’, sometimes a pet-form of Herebert; first attested Herre de Camera 1176 P (Nf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Harre is read(measured from records)
Harre is one spelling over 3 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.
- English61%
nickname from OE hēarra ‘chief, lord’, sometimes a pet-form of Herebert; first attested Herre de Camera 1176 P (Nf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- French18%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Harre in French.
- German12%
Familienname aus einer germanischen Rufnamen-Kurzform auf Har-/Harre-; 362 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Harre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Harre | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Harre | 66 |
| US United States | 556 | 1 in 598K | 630 | Harre | 180 |
| FR France | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 161K | 60 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 660K | listed | Harre | 40 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Harre | 38 |
| DK Denmark | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Harre is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from Old English hearra ‘chief’, ‘lord’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a pet form of Herbert.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In enm, alternative form of herre (“hinge”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sid, donkeys (Equus asinus)
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)
- Dietrich Harreb. 1926DEGerman sports scientist (1926-2018)
- Rom Harréb. 1927NZNew Zealand philosopher and psychologist (1927–2019)
- John Harréb. 1931NZNew Zealand social anthropologist
- Alan Harreb. 1940USacademic administrator
- Ruth Harreb. 2000DEEast German rower
- Brendon HarréNZNew Zealand urban planner
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 630 | #37,907 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 556 | #39,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 522 | #39,617 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 75 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 60 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 46 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 42 | #12,301 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Harre mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from OE hēarra ‘chief, lord’, sometimes a pet-form of Herebert; first attested Herre de Camera 1176 P (Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Harre?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhæɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Harre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 860 people named Harre in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harre.
- How common is the name Harre?
- In the United States, the national register counted 556 people named Harre in 2010, about 1 in 598 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/harreThe 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, “Harre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.