# Lothair (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lothair/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From French Lothaire, from Medieval Latin Lotharius, from Proto-West Germanic *Hlūdhari.

## In other languages

- French: Lothaire
- German: Lothar
- Greek: Λοθάριος
- Italian: Lotario
- Latin: Lotharius
- Polish: Lotar
- Russian: Лотарь

## People named Lothair

- Lothair I, Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.