Laeufer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Laeufer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 21Kas Laufer(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 123Kas Laufer
- ILIsrael≈1 in 20Kas Laufer
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 Laeufer 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
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 named Laufer, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est., as Laufer
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laufer in US United States, IL Israel and Läufer in DE Germany, AT Austria.
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)
Laeufer 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 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Läufer | 48 |
| US United States | 2,700as Laufer | 1 in 123K | 2.7K | Laufer | 292 |
| BR Brazil | 959as Laufer | 1 in 221K | 959 | — | 4 |
| PL Poland | 570as Laufer | 1 in 67K | 296 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Laufer | 51 |
| AT Austria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Läufer | 4 |
| UY Uruguay | 52as Laufer | 1 in 65K | 52 | — | — |
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Laeufer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Laufer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Laeufer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,700 people named Laufer in 2010, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Laeufer?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laeuferThe 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, “Laeufer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.