Stuhr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle High German stiur/stür 'sturdy, fierce, brave'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈstɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Stuhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 18K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 76K
- USUnited States1 in 236K
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
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
1,409 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Middle High German stiur/stür 'sturdy, fierce, brave'.
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stuhr 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 | 1,409 | 1 in 236K | 1.4K | Stuhr | 17 |
| DK Denmark | 323 | 1 in 18K | 323 | Stuhr | 57 |
| BR Brazil | 203 | 1 in 1M | 203 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 72 | 1 in 76K | 72 | Stuhr | 11 |
| SE Sweden | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | Stuhr | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | — |
1,409 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- William Stuhrb. 1882DKDanish painter
- Elaine Stuhrb. 1936USAmerican politician
- Barbara Stuhrb. 1947PLPolish violinist
- Maciej Stuhrb. 1975PLPolish actor
- Marianna Stuhrb. 1982DEPolish visual artist
- Jennifer Stuhrb. 1995DEGerman association football player
- Jasmin Stuhrb. 1998DEGerman association football player
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 | 1.4K | #19,242 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,364 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,770 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 323 | #1,428 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 203 | #36,365 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,183 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #22,824 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| 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
- What does the name Stuhr mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German stiur/stür 'sturdy, fierce, brave'. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Stuhr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Stuhr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Stuhr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stuhr.
- Where is Stuhr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stuhr is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 18 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stuhr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,409 people named Stuhr in 2010, about 1 in 236 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stuhr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/stuhrThe 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, “Stuhr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.