Spohr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: from a metalworker/spur-maker (Klein-/Blech-/Waffenschmied); bearer count 969
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈspɑɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Spohr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 493K
- DKDenmark1 in 98K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 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)
Occupational surname: from a metalworker/spur-maker (Klein-/Blech-/Waffenschmied); bearer count 969.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spohr 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Spohr | 95 |
| BR Brazil | 1,711 | 1 in 124K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| US United States | 675 | 1 in 493K | 675 | Spohr | 194 |
| EG Egypt | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Spohr | 1 |
| FR France | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 217K | 36 | — | 2 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Spohr | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 60 | 1 in 98K | 60 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 4 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Spohr 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, Berufsname: Sporenmacher; 969 Belege.
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)
- Louis Spohrb. 1784DEGerman composer, violinist and conductor
- Max Spohrb. 1850DEGerman publisher (1850–1905)
- Wilhelm Spohrb. 1868DEGerman author and translator (1868–1959)
- Arnold Spohrb. 1923CACanadian ballet dancer
- Rui Spohrb. 1929BRBrazilian designer
- Edmund Spohrb. 1943DEGerman architect
- Georg Spohrb. 1951DEEast German coxswain
- Barbara Spohrb. 1955CACanadian; artist (1955–1987)
- Carsten Spohrb. 1966DEGerman airline executive and CEO
- Kristina Spohrb. 1973DEGerman historian
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 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,640 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 675 | #33,731 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 659 | #36,520 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 658 | #32,856 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 66 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 60 | #8,984 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 41 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 38 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 36 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 35 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Spohr mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: from a metalworker/spur-maker (Klein-/Blech-/Waffenschmied); bearer count 969. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Spohr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈspɑɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Spohr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Spohr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spohr.
- How common is the name Spohr?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,711 people named Spohr, about 1 in 124 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Spohr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spohrThe 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, “Spohr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.