Mehr
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The seventh solar month of the Persian calendar
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mehr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 20K(measured from records)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 33K
- DKDenmark1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- 1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from any of several places so named.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mehr is read(measured from records)
Mehr is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English60%
The seventh solar month of the Persian calendar.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German12%
habitational name from any of several places so named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
more
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
something more
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mehr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Mehr | 66 |
| US United States | 1,415 | 1 in 235K | 1.5K | Mehr | 61 |
| CH Switzerland | 410 | 1 in 20K | 410 | Mehr | 2 |
| IR Iran | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 312K | — | Mehr | 13 |
| FR France | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 287K | 28 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 194K | 1 | Mehr | 8 |
| DK Denmark | 84 | 1 in 70K | 84 | — | — |
| FI Finland | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 25 | — | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)
Mehr 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 gmw-ecg, carrot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Regina Mehrb. 1873CZHolocaust victim (born 1873)
- Robert Mehrb. 1886ATAustrian politician
- Hjalmar Mehrb. 1910SESwedish politician (1910-1979)
- Farhang Mehrb. 1923IRIranian politician
- Mariella Mehrb. 1947CHSwiss writer of Yenish descent (1947–2022)
- Yves Mehrb. 1961FRFrench politician
- Marissa Mehrb. 1987FIFinnish journalist
- Sylvana Mehrb. 1993CHSwiss association football player
- Ramit MehrILIsraeli biologist
- Sam MehrAUresearcher
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 38 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,189 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,313 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 410 | #3,205 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 84 | #6,498 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 28 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Mehr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Mehr come from?
- habitational name from any of several places so named. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Mehr?
- In the etymology graph, More is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Mehr mean?
- In English, The seventh solar month of the Persian calendar.
- In which country does Mehr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Mehr in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mehr.
- Where is Mehr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mehr is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 20 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mehr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,415 people named Mehr in 2010, about 1 in 235 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/mehrThe 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, “Mehr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.