Zehr

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Zehr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: singular imperative of zehren.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 51K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 110K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 2.5M

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)

3,015 people, 2010

Sources
95 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

singular imperative of zehren

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zehr 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.

Where Zehr is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—3,0151 in 110K3.2KZehr22
CH Switzerland—1661 in 51K166Zehr8
ES Spain—81 in 6.3M8—1
CR Costa Rica—21 in 2.5M2——
PL Poland—21 in 19M2——
BF Burkina Faso#815———Zehr1

3,015 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zehr is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt

    Also written Źehr, Żéhř

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Vratislav Zehr, b. 1885Connie Zehr, b. 1938Howard Zehr, b. 1944Carl Zehr, b. 1945Jeff Zehr, b. 1978Bridgett Zehr, b. 1985

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Zehr
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.2K#9,646
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103K#10,620
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.6K#11,207
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024166#7,292
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—8#134,434
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#417,867
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—2#13,527
US United Stateswru 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 Zehr mean, and where does it come from?
singular imperative of zehren Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Zehr have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Zehr, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zehr.
Where is Zehr most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zehr is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Zehr?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,015 people named Zehr in 2010, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
How common is Zehr compared with other names?
In Burkina Faso, Zehr is the 815th most common surname of 4,677 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zehr

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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, “Zehr” — the 815th most common surname in Burkina Faso. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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