Nohr

surname · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from a farmstead named Nor, from Old Norse nor ‘narrows’, denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake, or a short stream leading from a lake into a river

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈnɔɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nohr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 293K
  • SESweden1 in 319K

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.

United States (measured from records)

515 people, 2010

Sources
37 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from a farmstead named Nor, from Old Norse nor ‘narrows’, denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake, or a short stream leading from a lake into a river.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nohr 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.

Where Nohr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5151 in 646K568Nohr5
NO Norway3261 in 17K326Nohr19
CA Canada≈100 est.≈1 in 371K—Nohr5
BR Brazil411 in 5.2M41——
SE Sweden321 in 319K32Nohr5
DK Denmark201 in 293K2.2KNohr37

515 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nohr is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Nöhr, Noehr

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Nohr 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.

  • In Norwegian, probably a habitational name from Nohra in Thuringia, originally named with elements meaning ‘marshy stream’; or, in Holstein, a topographic name from Nohr ‘stagnant water’, ‘l^e’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Norwegian, from a reduced form of medieval personal name Apollinaris (a derivative of Greek Apollo). This name was borne by a Christian martyr whose cult was centered on Remagen (Vineland), where it is found in old forms such as Pollenoris, Bolinoris.

    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)

1940196019802000Karin Nohr, b. 1950Holger Nohr, b. 1961Randy Nohr, b. 1977Maria Nohr, b. 1989

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)

FormalDear Mr Nohr,
InformalHi Nohr,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Nohr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020568#41,313
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010515#42,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000488#41,924
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—326#4,639
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—41#120,411
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—32#18,045
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—20#22,864
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Nohr mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from a farmstead named Nor, from Old Norse nor ‘narrows’, denoting either a narrow passage in a fjord or lake, or a short stream leading from a lake into a river. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Nohr have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 515 people named Nohr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nohr.
Where is Nohr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nohr is densest in Norway — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Nohr?
A machine transcription gives /ˈnɔɹ/ (IPA) for English.
How common is the name Nohr?
In the United States, the national register counted 515 people named Nohr in 2010, about 1 in 646 thousand residents.

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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, “Nohr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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