Lowenthal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: invented Jewish name meaning literally ‘lion-valley’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Lowenthal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 71Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 102K
- USUnited States1 in 259K
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 Lowenthal 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)
- Record sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
1,283 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)invented Jewish name meaning literally ‘lion-valley’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lowenthal 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 | 1,283 | 1 in 259K | 1.3K | Lowenthal | 250 |
| GH Ghana | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Lowenthal | 2 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Lowenthal | 21 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Lowenthal | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Lowenthal | 52 |
| NL Netherlands | 169 | 1 in 102K | 169 | Lowenthal | 13 |
| IL Israel | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Lowenthal | 12 |
1,283 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)Lowenthal 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.
Jewish (Ashkenazic) and Swedish (Lowenthal); ornamental name composed of German Lowe ‘lion’ -I- T(h)al ‘valley’; in some cases the Jewish name would have been an ornamental elaboration associated with the personal name Levy or with personal names meaning ‘lion’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name from any of various places called Lowenthal.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Fred Lowenthalb. 1878USAmerican football player and coach (1878-1931)
- Max Lowenthalb. 1888USAmerican political figure
- Bernie Loweb. 1917USnot in their usual nameAmerican songwriter, record producer, arranger, pianist, bandleader (1917-1993)
- David Lowenthalb. 1923USAmerican historian and geographer (1923-2018)
- John Lowenthalb. 1925USAmerican lawyer (1925–2003)
- Jerome Lowenthalb. 1932USAmerican pianist
- Bonnie Lowenthalb. 1940USAmerican politician
- Alan Lowenthalb. 1941USAmerican politician (born 1941)
- Mark M. Lowenthalb. 1948USAmerican author and academic
- Yuri Lowenthalb. 1971USAmerican voice 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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,636 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,657 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,389 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Lowenthal mean, and where does it come from?
- invented Jewish name meaning literally ‘lion-valley’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Lowenthal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Lowenthal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lowenthal.
- How common is the name Lowenthal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,283 people named Lowenthal in 2010, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lowenthalThe 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, “Lowenthal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.