Rohn
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rohn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: German surname, from the obsolete noun Middle High German ron (“stump, block”). Also a medieval derivative of Ecclesiastical Latin Hieronymus (compare Jerome).
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 155K
- BZBelize≈1 in 35K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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)
German surname, from the obsolete noun Middle High German ron (“stump, block”). Also a medieval derivative of Ecclesiastical Latin Hieronymus (compare Jerome).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rohn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Rohn | 2 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Rohn | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Rohn | 94 |
| US United States | 2,149 | 1 in 155K | 2.5K | Rohn | 249 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 291K | 16 | Rohn | 28 |
| CH Switzerland | 116 | 1 in 72K | 116 | Rohn | 15 |
| BZ Belize | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Rohn | 1 |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Rohnb. 1855DEmathematician (1855-1920)
- Hans Rohnb. 1868ATAustrian lithographer and painter (1868-1955)
- Arthur Rohnb. 1878CHSwiss university teacher (1878-1956)
- Liliane Frey-Rohnb. 1901CHSwiss psychologist
- Roland Rohnb. 1905CHSwiss architect (1905-1971)
- Jim Rohnb. 1930USAmerican motivational speaker, businessman and bestseller author (1930–2009)
- Dan Rohnb. 1956USAmerican baseball player
- Reinhard Rohnb. 1959DEGerman author
- Jennifer Rohnb. 1967USAmerican biologist and writer
- Emileigh Rohnb. 2000USAmerican musician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,014 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #14,772 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 116 | #9,835 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Rohn mean, and where does it come from?
- German surname, from the obsolete noun Middle High German ron (“stump, block”). Also a medieval derivative of Ecclesiastical Latin Hieronymus (compare Jerome). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Rohn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Rohn in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rohn.
- How common is the name Rohn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,149 people named Rohn in 2010, about 1 in 155 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/rohnThe 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, “Rohn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.