Spahr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu dial. 'Sperling/Spatz' (Vogelname; klein, Körpergröße); 676 Belege
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Spahr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 75K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 96K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 300 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
2,989 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where the surname Spahr is found
(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,989 | 1 in 111K | 3K | Spahr | 300 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 75K | listed | Spahr | 75 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 96K | 16 | Spahr | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | 630 | 1 in 13K | 630 | Spahr | 46 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Spahr | 27 |
2,989 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; 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)- William J. Spahrb. 1921USAmerican CIA analyst (1921-2011)
- Jürg Spahrb. 1925CH(1925-2002)
- Juliana Spahrb. 1966USAmerican poet
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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Spahr?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Spahr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spahr. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 United States 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 2026-10-13.