Knoerr
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/noʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knoerr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.5Kas Knorr(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 57Kas Knorr
- USUnited States1 in 77Kas Knorr
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 Knoerr 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 named Knorr, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Knorr
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Knorr in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knoerr 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 | #623 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | listed | Knorr | 150 |
| US United States | — | 4,333as Knorr | 1 in 77K | 4.3K | Knorr | 289 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Knorr | 5 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Knorr | 80 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Knorr | 60 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 200as Knörr | 1 in 42K | 200 | Knorr | 20 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Knorr | 34 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Berthold KnoerrDEGerman military physician
- Alan Paul KnoerrUSPh.D. Brown University 1988
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 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 236 | #80,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 214 | #82,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Knoerr?
- A machine transcription gives /noʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Knoerr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Knorr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Knoerr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,333 people named Knorr in 2010, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Knoerr compared with other names?
- In Germany, Knoerr is the 623rd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Knoerr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knoerrThe 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, “Knoerr” — the 623rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.