Uhr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: clock, watch, o’clock
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Uhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 36K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 57K
- FIFinland1 in 186K
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
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
306 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
clock, watch, o’clock
Sources 1
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Uhr 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 | 306 | 1 in 1.1M | 306 | Uhr | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 236 | 1 in 36K | 236 | — | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 180 | 1 in 57K | 180 | — | 3 |
| BR Brazil | 73 | 1 in 2.9M | 73 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 11 | 1 in 1.1M | 11 | — | — |
306 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Uhr is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, hours, o'clock (indicates the time within a twelve- or twenty-four-hour period)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pon, lobster
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In pdc, clock
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Ambros Uhrb. 1708CH(1708-1775)
- Johann Uhrb. 1824CH(1824-1865)
- Wentworth D'Arcy Uhrb. 1845AUAustralian gold prospector (1845-1907)
- Clive Uhrb. 1903AUAustralian medical doctor
- Marie-Louise Uhrb. 1923AUAustralian biochemist and Catholic activist
- Martina Uhrb. 1961DEGerman politician
- Markus Uhrb. 1974CHSwiss artist
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 306 | #64,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 303 | #61,855 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 291 | #72,089 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 236 | #5,435 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 180 | #4,554 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 73 | #79,953 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,592 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 11 | #67,493 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Uhr mean, and where does it come from?
- clock, watch, o’clock Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
- How do you pronounce Uhr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Uhr have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 306 people named Uhr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled uhr.
- Where is Uhr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Uhr is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Uhr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Uhr in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million 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/uhrThe 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, “Uhr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.