Horr

surname · Latin script

Meaning: unexplained; possibly a derivative of Middle High German hor ‘dirt’ (see Hoerr)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/ˈhɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Horr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 109K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 437Kas Hoerr
  • AOAngola≈1 in 73K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Horr 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,200 named Hoerr, est.

Sources
188 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 73K (inferred from the name graph)

Angola, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hoerr in US United States, CN China and Hörr in DE Germany.

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)

unexplained; possibly a derivative of Middle High German hor ‘dirt’ (see Hoerr).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Horr 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.

Where Horr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈9,200 est.≈1 in 151K—Hoerr1
US United States761as Hoerr1 in 437K761Hoerr188
DE Germany≈740 est.≈1 in 109K—Hörr55
DZ Algeria≈480 est.≈1 in 89KlistedHorr4
AO Angola≈440 est.≈1 in 73K—Horr1
BR Brazil2431 in 871K243——
IE Ireland≈70 est.≈1 in 74K—Horr1

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); the dz-kaggle-names register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Horr is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, United States, Chile

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Hörr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Hörr

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon

    Also written Hörr

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Hörr

  • Ukrainian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Хорр

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Horr 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 Albanian, scoundrel, thug

    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)

18001850190019502000Roswell G. Horr, b. 1830Ella Louise Horr, b. 1854George Edwin Horr, b. 1856Bill Horr, b. 1880Ralph Horr, b. 1884Franz Horr, b. 1913Lorenz Horr, b. 1942Abdelkader Horr, b. 1953

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Horr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000630#34,071
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010579#38,265
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020570#41,199
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—243#31,348
DZ AlgeriaAlgerian names (Kaggle, MIT)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Horr mean, and where does it come from?
unexplained; possibly a derivative of Middle High German hor ‘dirt’ (see Hoerr). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Horr?
A machine transcription gives /ˈhɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Horr have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.2 thousand people named Hoerr in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Horr?
In Brazil, the national register counted 243 people named Horr, about 1 in 871 thousand residents.

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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, “Horr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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