How common is the surname Lohr?

6,506 people in the United States had the surname Lohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,456 Americans. It ranked 5,348th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Lohr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Lohr?

Alexander Löhr, Austrian Air Force commander and German general (1885–1947), followed by Marie Lohr.

Where is the surname Lohr most common?

Wikidata records people named Lohr in Austria, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.

Is the surname Lohr getting more or less common?

About as common. 6,506 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,506 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.

The surname Lohr

A surname, carried by 6,506 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex L600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lohr is more common than 96.7% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 6,506 people named Lohr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,456 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 6,506.

#5,348

rank among US surnames

6,506

people in 2010

2.2

per 100,000 Americans

change since 2000 (was #4,962)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#5,339	Bias	6,518	47,368
#5,340	Emanuel	6,517	47,375
#5,342	Howerton	6,516	47,383
#5,343	Delao	6,515	47,390
#5,344	Chaplin	6,513	47,405
#5,345	Grenier	6,509	47,434
#5,347	Hermosillo	6,508	47,441

Who is named Lohr

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Lohr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
Two or more races 1.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.1%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Lohrs

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Alexander Löhr
Austrian Air Force commander and German general (1885–1947)
Marie Lohr
Actress (1890-1975)
Aaron Lohr
American actor and singer, born 1976

Notable Lohrs come mostly from Austria (1), the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1) and the United States (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Lohr

Lohr has the Soundex code L600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L600.

Questions

How common is the surname Lohr?: 6,506 people in the United States had the surname Lohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,456 Americans. It ranked 5,348th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Lohr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Lohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Lohr?: Alexander Löhr, Austrian Air Force commander and German general (1885–1947), followed by Marie Lohr.
Where is the surname Lohr most common?: Wikidata records people named Lohr in Austria, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States.
Is the surname Lohr getting more or less common?: About as common. 6,506 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,506 in 2010, a change of 0.0%.