Stahr
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈstæɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stahr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 49K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 310K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 79K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stahr itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 214 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 49K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Staehr, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Staehr in DK Denmark, CN China.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stahr 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 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Staehr | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Stahr | 81 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Stahr | 1 |
| US United States | 1,072 | 1 in 310K | 1.1K | Stahr | 214 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 304K | 18 | Stahr | 15 |
| BO Bolivia | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Stahr | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 46 | 1 in 128K | 46 | Staehr | 4 |
| LR Liberia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 119K | — | Stahr | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Adolf Stahrb. 1805DEGerman writer (1805–1876)
- Walter Stahrb. 1882DEGerman officer (1882–1948)
- Paul Stahrb. 1883USAmerican artist (1883–1953)
- Alfred Stahrb. 1911DEGerman association football player
- Elvis Jacob Stahr, Jr.b. 1916USAmerican government official and college president (1916-1998)
- Jimmy Stahrb. 1935FRDanish politician
- Karl-Heinz Stahrb. 1950DEGerman amateur wrestler
- Alexander Stahrb. 1959DEGerman geographer and opinion journalist
- Nina Stahrb. 1982DEGerman politician
- Max Stahrb. 1991DEGerman cyclist
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,647 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,612 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,066 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 46 | #11,328 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 18 | #97,089 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- How do you pronounce Stahr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstæɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stahr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Staehr in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Stahr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,072 people named Stahr in 2010, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stahr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stahrThe 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, “Stahr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.