Terhorst
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Univerbierte Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsbildung from Ter- + Horst; Bearer count: 7212. Demonstrates fusion of preposition and noun (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tɛɾɔɾʃt/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Terhorst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 40K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K
- CACanada≈1 in 410Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
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.
How to pronounce Terhorst
- Portuguese:/tɛɾɔɾʃt/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Dutch:/tɛrˈɦɔrst/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Univerbierte Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsbildung from Ter- + Horst; Bearer count: 7212. Demonstrates fusion of preposition and noun.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Terhorst is read
(measured from records)Terhorst is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English48%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Terhorst in English.
- German30%
Univerbierte Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsbildung from Ter- + Horst; Bearer count: 7212. Demonstrates fusion of preposition and noun.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Toponymischer Familienname zu altsächs./nd. to 'zu/in/an/bei' + Artikel; zeigt Ter-/Te(m/n)- als verschmolzene Präposition-Artikel-Form. Bearer count: 109 types/7212 tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
- Portuguese9.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Terhorst in Portuguese.
- Dutch5.1%
a hamlet in Midden-Drenthe, Drenthe, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Terhorst is found
(measured from records)Terhorst 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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Terhorst | 83 |
| US United States | 440 | 1 in 756K | 440 | Terhorst | 125 |
| NL Netherlands | 427 | 1 in 40K | 427 | Terhorst | 40 |
| BR Brazil | 380 | 1 in 557K | 380 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Terhorst | 18 |
| SG Singapore | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Terhorst | 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Bernd Terhorstb. 1893DEGerman painter and sculptor
- Alexander Terhorstb. 1970DEGerman actor and radio host
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Terhorst mean, and where does it come from?
- Univerbierte Wohnstätten-/Herkunftsbildung from Ter- + Horst; Bearer count: 7212. Demonstrates fusion of preposition and noun. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Terhorst?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /tɛɾɔɾʃt/; in Dutch /tɛrˈɦɔrst/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Terhorst?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Terhorst in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled terhorst. After it come United States, Netherlands, Brazil and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Terhorst most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Terhorst is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Terhorst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Terhorst in 2010, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/terhorstThe 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, “Terhorst”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.