# Lothar (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lothar/  
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 | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 68 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 68 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 7 | 3,660 |
| 1928 | 6 | 3,969 |
| 1929 | 10 | 2,695 |
| 1931 | 6 | 3,614 |
| 1932 | 8 | 3,000 |
| 1935 | 8 | 2,852 |
| 1956 | 7 | 3,406 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,342 |
| 1964 | 6 | 3,873 |
| 1968 | 5 | 4,507 |

## People named Lothar

- Lothar Matthäus, German association football player, manager, and pundit (born 1961)
- Lothar Meyer, German chemist and physician (1830-1895)
- Lothar Rendulic, German general (1887-1971)
- Lothar Emmerich, German association football player and manager (1941-2003)
- Lothar von Trotha, German general (1848-1920)
- Lothar Collatz, German mathematician (1910–1990)
- Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author, artist (1918-2007)
- Lothar Kurbjuweit, East German footballer
- Lothar Thoms, East German racing cyclist (1956-2017)
- Lothar Metz, East German wrestler
- Lothar Milde, East German discus thrower
- Lothar Zagrosek, German conductor

## 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.