Kahrs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: short form of the medieval personal name Makarius, from Greek makarios ‘blessed’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑɹz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kahrs is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- NONorway
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
short form of the medieval personal name Makarius, from Greek makarios ‘blessed’. Compare Kares.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Christian Meidell Kahrsb. 1858NONorwegian politician
- Sophus Kahrsb. 1918NONorwegian Officer in SS
- Bringfriede Kahrsb. 1943DEGerman politician
- Axel Kahrsb. 1950DEGerman author
- Volker Kahrsb. 1951DEGerman musician (1951–2008)
- Bjørn Christian Kahrsb. 1958NONorwegian politician
- Johannes Kahrsb. 1963DEformer German politician
- Johannes Kahrsb. 1965DEGerman artist (born 1965)
- Julia Kahrsb. 1985NONorwegian writer
- Rainer Kahrsb. 2000DEGerman journalist
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 21 sources across 12 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Kahrs come from?
- short form of the medieval personal name Makarius, from Greek makarios ‘blessed’. Compare Kares. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kahrs?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɹz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kahrs mean?
- Recorded meaning: short form of the medieval personal name Makarius, from Greek makarios ‘blessed’.
- In which country does Kahrs have the most bearers?
- Kahrs is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kahrsThe 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kahrs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.