Mehring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from any of several places named Mehring or Mehringen
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/meɾin/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Mehring is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- ESSpain
- ARArgentina
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from any of several places named Mehring or Mehringen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Mehring 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 Croatian, 1. Franz (1846—1919), njemački socijaldemokratski političar i povjesničar, jedan od osnivača KP Njemačke 2. Walter (1896—1981), njemački pisac i filmski stvaratelj, jedan od utemeljitelja dadaističke skupine, antinacist, emigrant ( Politički kabaret , Berlin-Dada )
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)- Johannes Mehringb. 1815DEGerman beekeeper (1815-1878)
- Franz Mehringb. 1846DEGerman communist historian, philosopher, and politician (1846–1919)
- Sigmar Mehringb. 1856DEGerman journalist (1856-1915)
- Walter Mehringb. 1896DEGerman writer (1896–1981)
- Neal Mehringb. 1910USAmerican football player and coach (1910-1995)
- Wolfram Mehringb. 1930DEGerman actor and author
- Howard Mehringb. 1931USAmerican artist (1931-1978)
- Reinhard Mehringb. 1959DEGerman political scientist and philosopher (born 1959)
- Fabian Mehringb. 1989DEGerman politician
- Andrés Mehringb. 1994ARArgentinian association football player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,770 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #24,804 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,388 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 260 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 118 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 118 | #26,265 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 103 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 103 | #28,846 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 24 | #173,031 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Mehring mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from any of several places named Mehring or Mehringen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mehring?
- In Spanish /meɾin/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Mehring have the most bearers?
- Mehring is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Mehring?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mehringThe 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, “Mehring”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.