Spahr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu dial. 'Sperling/Spatz' (Vogelname; klein, Körpergröße); 676 Belege
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Spahr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 77K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 103K
- USUnited States1 in 111K
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
- 300 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Übername zu dial. 'Sperling/Spatz' (Vogelname; klein, Körpergröße); 676 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spahr 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Spahr | 2 |
| US United States | 2,989 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Spahr | 300 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 77K | listed | Spahr | 75 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 103K | 16 | Spahr | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 630 | 1 in 13K | 630 | Spahr | 46 |
| IS Iceland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Spahr | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Spahr 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 German, Übername; entweder zu 'Sperling' oder zu mnd. spare 'Sparre' (Personenmerkmal).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Charles Barzillai Spahrb. 1860USAmerican economist
- Henri Spahrb. 1878CHSwiss politician (1878-1950)
- Emil Spahrb. 1887CH(1887-1978)
- Rodolfo Spahrb. 1894CHItalian numismatist (1894-1981)
- René Spahrb. 1905CH(1905-2001)
- William J. Spahrb. 1921USAmerican CIA analyst (1921-2011)
- Jürg Spahrb. 1925CH(1925-2002)
- Tanja Spahrb. 1961DEGerman badminton player
- Juliana Spahrb. 1966USAmerican poet
- Stephanie Spahrb. 1987DEGerman environmental chemist
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,692 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,954 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 630 | #2,013 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Spahr mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu dial. 'Sperling/Spatz' (Vogelname; klein, Körpergröße); 676 Belege.
- In which country does Spahr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Spahr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spahr.
- Where is Spahr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Spahr is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Spahr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,989 people named Spahr in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spahrThe 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, “Spahr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.