Muhr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Alpine 'landslide'; Bavarian muar 'moor'; or nd./Swiss 'wall'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈmʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 481K
- ATAustria≈1 in 7.1K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
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)Alpine 'landslide'; Bavarian muar 'moor'; or nd./Swiss 'wall'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Muhr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Muhr | 113 |
| AT Austria | #513 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Muhr | 64 |
| US United States | — | 691 | 1 in 481K | 691 | Muhr | 179 |
| FR France | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 263K | 32 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 212 | 1 in 48K | 212 | Muhr | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 83 | 1 in 101K | 83 | Muhr | 19 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Muhr | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Muhr is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name from Middle High German muor ‘marsh’, ‘bog’, or ‘moor’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Arabic, seal, seal-ring.”””
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
variant of Mauer 2.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In gmw-cfr, 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)- Carl Adolf Muhrb. 1783SESwedish writer
- Alois Muhrb. 1801ATmusician, organist, horn player and zitherist
- Adelbert Muhrb. 1896ATAustrian journalist and author (1896-1977)
- Rudolfine Muhrb. 1900ATAustrian politician
- Andreas Muhrb. 1904DEGerman politician (1904-1968)
- Rudolf Muhrb. 1950ATAustrian germanist
- Wolfgang Rupert Muhrb. 1976ATAustrian actor, author and director
- Bernhard Muhrb. 1977ATAustrian association football player
- Lucie Muhrb. 1978DEGerman actress
- Christopher Muhrb. 1981DEGerman businessman
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 691 | #33,121 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 678 | #32,094 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 663 | #36,342 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 212 | #3,944 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 83 | #12,767 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 59 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 44 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 37 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 34 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 32 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Muhr mean, and where does it come from?
- Alpine 'landslide'; Bavarian muar 'moor'; or nd./Swiss 'wall' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Muhr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muhr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Muhr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muhr.
- How common is the name Muhr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 691 people named Muhr in 2010, about 1 in 481 thousand residents.
- How common is Muhr compared with other names?
- In Austria, Muhr is the 513th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muhrThe 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, “Muhr” — the 513th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.