How common is the surname Mohr?

17,180 people in the United States had the surname Mohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,971 Americans. It ranked 2,106th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Mohr?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Mohr?

Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian, followed by Joseph Mohr.

Where is the surname Mohr most common?

Wikidata records people named Mohr in the United States, the Austrian Empire and Germany and 2 other countries.

Is the surname Mohr getting more or less common?

More common. 17,153 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,180 in 2010, up 0.2%.

The surname Mohr

A German surname, carried by 17,180 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M600

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Mohr is more common than 98.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

A surname from German.

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 17,180 people named Mohr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 17,971 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 17,153.

#2,106

rank among US surnames

17,180

people in 2010

5.8

per 100,000 Americans

+0.2%

change since 2000 (was #1,927)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,097	Saldivar	17,250	17,898
#2,098	Woodson	17,242	17,907
#2,099	Oakley	17,238	17,911
#2,100	Whittaker	17,234	17,915
#2,102	Huddleston	17,231	17,918
#2,103	Hoff	17,223	17,926
#2,104	Staples	17,217	17,933

Who is named Mohr

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

95% of people named Mohr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
Two or more races 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Mohrs

7 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Jay Mohr
American actor and comedian, born 1970
Joseph Mohr
Austrian priest and composer (1792–1848)
Gerald Mohr
American radio, film and television character actor (1914-1968)
Hal Mohr
American cinematographer (1894–1974)
Tobias Mohr
Association football player (1995-)
Herta Mohr
Austrian Egyptologist, who later lived stateless in the Netherlands, 1914–1945
Laura Marholm
Baltic German author (1854-1928)

Notable Mohrs come mostly from the United States (3), the Austrian Empire (1) and Germany (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Mohr

Mohr has the Soundex code M600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M600.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Mohr come from?: Mohr is German in origin.
How common is the surname Mohr?: 17,180 people in the United States had the surname Mohr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 17,971 Americans. It ranked 2,106th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Mohr?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Mohr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Mohr?: Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian, followed by Joseph Mohr.
Where is the surname Mohr most common?: Wikidata records people named Mohr in the United States, the Austrian Empire and Germany and 2 other countries.
Is the surname Mohr getting more or less common?: More common. 17,153 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 17,180 in 2010, up 0.2%.