The Lahr surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,666 people carried this name — #8,928 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 80,600 people counted. That is up 2% from 3,577 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 40 people named Lahr.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
27 people named Lahr live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the first U.S. census, 1790
In 1790, Lahr was counted together with Law: 104 families in all.
Each family is counted by its head. About 552 people lived in those households, 5.3 to a family on average. The census counted these spellings together: Law, Lahr, Laer, Lar, Lauer, Laur, Laws, Lehr, Loar, Loher, Lore, Lorr, Lours, Lowar, Lower, Lowers. The table lists white heads of families only, in the twelve states whose 1790 records survive; Virginia’s figures come from state lists of 1782–1785.
Families, by state
U.S. Census Bureau, «A Century of Population Growth from the First Census of the United States to the Twelfth, 1790–1900» (Washington, 1909), table 111, p. 249 — public domain · names carried by at least 100 white persons in 1790.
In print
Lahr in American newspapers,
1901–1926.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 36,122 pages in all carry the name.
In print
Lahr in Australian newspapers,
1870s–1960s.
122 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lahr. The most, 25, date from the 1930s. Weighed against how much of each state’s press from the same decades has been digitised, it stands out most in Queensland, at 1.5 times its expected share.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Lahr.
Who carried it
People named Lahr,
with a public archive behind them.
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Charles Lahr 1885–1971 · baker -
Bert Lahr 1895–1967 · screenwriter -
Johann Lahr 1913–1942 · ski jumper -
Charles Lahr 1841–1919 · philosopher
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Wilhelmine Grombacher 1878–1942
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Helene Lahr 1894–1958 · translator
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Lahr,
in the records of 5 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States558 records
- Passenger arrivals in the United States, 1820–1912 206
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 188
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 99
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 31
- New York State death index (outside NYC), 1957–2001 17
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 16
- U.S. service members who died in the Vietnam War 1
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record John J. LahrBorn 1920 in New York. Enlisted 1940 at New York City; baker from Kings County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1980, buried at Calverton National Cemetery, New York.
U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Magdalena LahrArrived at Baltimore in 1853 aboard the Marianne from Bremen, aged 20; servant. From Hodnitz, Germany; bound for Pittsburgh.
U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) -
Example: U.S. war memorial War record Clyde David LahrBorn 1947; from Bellevue, Michigan. U.S. Army, infantryman; killed in action 1969 in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam.
U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain)
Showing 3 of 558 records for Lahr in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Castle Garden Immigration Center Collection, Ship Passenger Records (unrestricted) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) · New York State Department of Health, Genealogical Research Death Index · U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, Defense Casualty Analysis System (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain); Vietnam Veterans Memorial, photo by U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden, 2009 (public domain).
Netherlands432 records
- Dutch civil registers (births, marriages, deaths) 271
- Dutch population registers 158
- Dutch church registers before 1811 3
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Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record Joannis LahrMarried in 1883 in Middelburg; postman. Died 1937 in Middelburg, aged 78.
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Example: marriage register, 1911 Marriage record Johannes Antonius LahrMarried in 1873 in Heteren; smith. Died 1919 in Randwijk, aged 76; "fruitteler".
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Example: civil register, 1880 Death record Anna Sophia LahrBorn 1918 in Utrecht. Died 1919 in Utrecht.
Open Archives, Het Utrechts Archief (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 432 records for Lahr in the Netherlands.
Counts: Open Archives (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Marriage register, Tilburg, 1911, Regionaal Archief Tilburg (public domain); Civil register, Berlin, 1880, Landesarchiv Berlin (CC0).
Germany195 records
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Example: German casualty list, 1918 Casualty list Peter LahrBorn 1896; from Heimbach, Neuwied. Reported wounded in the Prussian casualty list of 4 December 1918.
Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0) -
Example: German casualty list, 1918 Casualty list Philipp LahrFrom Undenheim, Oppenheim. Reported dead in the Prussian casualty list of 18 November 1915 (Infantry Regiment No. 118).
Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0) -
Example: German casualty list, 1918 Casualty list Edwin LahrFrom Bärenwalde, Zwickau. Reported missing in the Saxon casualty list of 15 April 1916 (Infantry Regiment No. 183).
Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0)
Showing 3 of 195 records for Lahr in Germany.
Counts: Verein für Computergenealogie e.V. (2026). Deutsche Verlustlisten des Ersten Weltkriegs – Datensammlung (Version 1.0), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18330751 (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Deutsche Verlustlisten, Prussian list 1116, 18 April 1918 (scan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0).
France24 records
- France's national death register, 1970–2001 23
- Loire-Atlantique's First World War dead 1
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Madeleine Marie Joseph LahrBorn 1904 in Belgium; died 1991 in Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine).
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Example: roll of the war dead War record Maurice Jean Joseph LahrBorn 1892 in Imphy. Died in the First World War on 27 April 1915; recorded “Mort pour la France”. Seaman.
Département de Loire-Atlantique, Mémorial virtuel des morts pour la France (Licence Ouverte 2.0) -
Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Jean Alcide LahrBorn 1911 in Neufmanil; died 1985 in Neufmanil (Ardennes).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 3 of 24 records for Lahr in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte) · Département de Loire-Atlantique, Mémorial virtuel des morts pour la France (Licence Ouverte 2.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain); Livre d’or of the war dead, Paris, Ministère des pensions, Archives nationales (CC0).
Australia8 records
- Victoria passenger lists, 1839–1923 7
- Victoria wills and probate, deaths to 2001 1
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Example: probate petition, 1848 Probate record Eugene Julius LahrConsulting engineer of Elwood, Victoria; died 1998.
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Wilhelm LahrArrived in Victoria in 1858 aboard the Susanne.
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Example: passenger manifest, 1903 Passenger record Frederichi LahrArrived in Victoria in 1858 aboard the Susanne.
Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0)
Showing 3 of 8 records for Lahr in Australia.
Counts: Public Record Office Victoria (CC BY 4.0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Petition to the probate court, St. Louis, 1848, Missouri Historical Society (public domain); Passenger manifest of the S.S. St. Paul, New York, 1903 (public domain).
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