Loehr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. occupational name for a tanner, Middle High German, Middle Low German loer, lower
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loehr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 14Kas Löhr(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 51Kas Lohr
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 42K
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 Loehr 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 328 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Lohr, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lohr in US United States, AT Austria, NO Norway and 2 more and Löhr 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)
1. occupational name for a tanner, Middle High German, Middle Low German loer, lower. 2. short form of Lorenz or of a Germanic personal name formed with (h)lut ‘clear’ + rih ‘powerful’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loehr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Lohr | 3 |
| US United States | — | 6,506as Lohr | 1 in 51K | 6.5K | Lohr | 328 |
| DE Germany | #476 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Löhr | 134 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Loehr | 1 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Lohr | 2 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Lohr | 32 |
| NO Norway | — | 204as Ler | 1 in 27K | 204 | Lohr | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 31 | — | 4 |
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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Matthias Joseph Loehrb. 1799DEGerman pharmacist and botanist (1800-1882)
- Gustave Loehrb. 1864Rotary International leader
- Pearl Grace Loehrb. 1877USAmerican photographer
- August Oktav Ritter von Loehrb. 1882ATAustrian economic historian (1882–1965)
- Max Loehrb. 1903DEAmerican art historian (1903-1988)
- Helmut Loehrb. 1935DEGerman manager (1935-2008)
- Matthias Loehrb. 1977DEGerman politician
- Bret Loehrb. 1993USAmerican actor
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,534 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,394 |
| US United States | wru 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
- Where does the name Loehr come from?
- 1. occupational name for a tanner, Middle High German, Middle Low German loer, lower. 2. short form of Lorenz or of a Germanic personal name formed with (h)lut ‘clear’ + rih ‘powerful’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Loehr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Loehr mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. occupational name for a tanner, Middle High German, Middle Low German loer, lower.
- In which country does Loehr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Lohr in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Loehr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,506 people named Lohr in 2010, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
- How common is Loehr compared with other names?
- In Germany, Loehr is the 476th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loehrThe 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, “Loehr” — the 476th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.