Rohwer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kontrahierte Form nach Schwund von -d(d)e-; zu ahd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɹoʊwɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rohwer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 255K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 379K
- SESweden1 in 425K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 255K (inferred from the name graph)
877 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Kontrahierte Form nach Schwund von -d(d)e-; zu ahd. wetar, as. wedar 'Wetter, Witterung'. Bearer count: 912.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Rohwer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 877 | 1 in 379K | 877 | Rohwer | 86 |
| SE Sweden | 24 | 1 in 425K | 24 | Rohwer | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 23 | 1 in 255K | 23 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 11 | 1 in 4.5M | 11 | Rohwer | 4 |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 5 | Rohwer | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 2 |
877 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
- Sievert Allen Rohwerb. 1887USU.S. entomologist (1887-1951)
- Ray Rohwerb. 1895USAmerican baseball player (1895-1988)
- Franz Rohwerb. 1905DEGerman politician (1905-1981)
- Detlev Rohwerb. 1917DEGerman fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient
- Jürgen Rohwerb. 1924DEGerman military historian (1924–2015)
- Götz Rohwerb. 1947DEGerman university teacher
- Bernd Rohwerb. 1951DEGerman politician
- Jens Gunter Rohwerb. 1958DEGerman botanist and university teacher
- Jörn Jacob Rohwerb. 1965DEGerman journalist and judaic scholar
- Lars Rohwerb. 1972DEGerman politician
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 877 | #27,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 869 | #29,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 803 | #28,088 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 24 | #22,006 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 23 | #20,897 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 11 | #114,632 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #208,043 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #78,233 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #386,724 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Rohwer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɹoʊwɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Rohwer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kontrahierte Form nach Schwund von -d(d)e-; zu ahd.
- In which country does Rohwer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 877 people named Rohwer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rohwer.
- Where is Rohwer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rohwer is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 255 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rohwer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 877 people named Rohwer in 2010, about 1 in 379 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/rohwerThe 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, “Rohwer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.