Lotar
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lotar is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 210K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 50Kas Lothar
- CZCzechia1 in 85Kas Lothar
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lotar 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 210K (inferred from the name graph)
585 named Lothar, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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° lijen, 2° lupež, bludnik, kurvar, pijanica, nevaljanac, ljenivac, 3° psovka«
Sources 2
- Nordic Names
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lotar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 585as Lothar | 1 in 569K | 581 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 261as Lothar | 1 in 811K | 283 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 203as Lothar | 1 in 50K | 203 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 197as Lothar | 1 in 88K | 190 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | 182 | 1 in 210K | 185 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 126as Lothar | 1 in 85K | 126 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 43as Lothar | 1 in 136K | 43 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 26as Lothar | 1 in 130K | 26 | — | — |
585 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lotar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sga, third-person plural preterite absolute of téit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, »1° lijen, 2° lupež, bludnik, kurvar, pijanica, nevaljanac, ljenivac, 3° psovka«
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
- Lothar Spielmannb. 1904CZHolocaust victim (born 1904)
- Lotar Oliasb. 1913DEGerman composer (1913-1990)
- Lotar Neumannb. 1918CZphotographer
- Lotar Ferberb. 1926CZHolocaust victim (born 1926)
- Lotar Schleenerb. 1927DEGerman table tennis player (1927-2014)
- Lotar Siewerdtb. 1939BRBrazilian scientist
- Lotar Indruchb. 1940Czechoslovak politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Lotar a male or female name?
- Lotar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Lotar have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 585 people named Lothar, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lotar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lotar is densest in Poland — about 1 in 210 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lotar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 182 people named Lotar in 2026, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lotar?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lotarThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Lotar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.