The Mohn surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,129 people carried this name — #10,298 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 94,300 people counted. That is down 6% from 3,316 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
235 people named Mohn live in Switzerland.
They live in 11 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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 France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 81 people named Mohn.
8 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 15 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
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 Argentina’s national register
At least 32 people named Mohn live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Córdoba.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
429 people named Mohn are counted in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Mohn in American newspapers,
1920–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 30,092 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Mohn,
with a public archive behind them.
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Henrik Mohn 1835–1916 · writer -
Emanuel Mohn 1842–1891 · illustrator -
Luigi Mohn d. 1939 · Catholic priest
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Samuel Mohn 1761–1815 · artist
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Friedrich Mohn 1762–1845 · writer
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Samuel Mohn 1762–1815 · artist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mohn.
- Mohamadi 101 · U.S. census
- Mohamed 27,972 · U.S. census
- Mohammad 5,639 · U.S. census
- Mohammed 15,132 · U.S. census
- Mohan 6,188 · U.S. census
- Mohler 6,506 · U.S. census
- Mohr 17,180 · U.S. census
- Moi 358 · U.S. census
- Moine 150 · U.S. census
- Moisa 336 · U.S. census
- Moisan 540 · U.S. census
- Moisant 227 · U.S. census
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