Lothaire
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Germanic Chlothar/Lothar, 'famous army' (hlud + hari)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɔtɛʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lothaire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 240K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 921K
- CACanada≈1 in 8.5M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 240K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Germanic Chlothar/Lothar, 'famous army' (hlud + hari).
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lothaire 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 270 | Lothaire | 128 |
| US United States | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | — | Lothaire | 31 |
| BE Belgium | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 921K | 168 | Lothaire | 22 |
| DE Germany | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Lothaire | 11 |
| CA Canada | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | — | Lothaire | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Lothaire is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Forme contractée de Clotaire; origine germanique, « grande gloire ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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 Ib. 795DEnot in their usual nameEmperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855
- Lothair II of Lotharingiab. 835ITnot in their usual nameKing of Lotharingia from 855 to 869
- Lothar the Lameb. 848FRnot in their usual nameFrench abbot
- Lothair of Franceb. 941FRnot in their usual nameKing of West Francia from 954 to 986
- Lothar Udo I.b. 994not in their usual nameAft 994 - 7 Nov 1057
- Lothair IIIb. 1075DEnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Emperor from 1133 to 1137
- Lotharius van Hochstadenb. 1101ITnot in their usual nameBishop of Liège
- Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheidb. 1617DEnot in their usual namePrince-Bishop of Speyer
- Lothaire Bluteaub. 1957CACanadian actor
- Lothair II of ItalyFRnot in their usual nameKing of Italy from 947 to 950
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2016 | 270 | #2,761 |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Lothaire mean, and where does it come from?
- From Germanic Chlothar/Lothar, 'famous army' (hlud + hari). Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Lothaire?
- In the etymology graph, Lothar, Lotario and Lothair are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lothaire?
- A machine transcription gives /lɔtɛʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Lothaire a male or female name?
- Lothaire 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 Lothaire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 283 people named Lothaire in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lothaire.
- How common is the name Lothaire?
- Mondonomo estimates about 280 people in France have Lothaire as their first given name, about 1 in 240 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lothaireThe 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, “Lothaire”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.