The Muhr surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 691 people carried this name — #33,121 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 434,800 people counted. That is up 2% from 678 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 167 people named Muhr.
4 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 18 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
80 people named Muhr live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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 Nordic population registers
194 people named Muhr is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
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).
Who carried it
People named Muhr,
with a public archive behind them.
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Ottmár Muhr 1860–1914 · military personnel -
Károly Muhr d. 1923 · rower
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Abraham Muhr 1781–1847 · writer
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Abraham Muhr 1781–1844 · writer
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Carl Adolf Muhr 1783–1839 · writer
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Alois Muhr 1801–1861 · musician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Muhr.
- Muggeo 131 · U.S. census
- Mugica 363 · U.S. census
- Mugler 242 · U.S. census
- Muh 134 · U.S. census
- Muhammad 19,076 · U.S. census
- Muhl 549 · U.S. census
- Mula 520 · U.S. census
- Mulder 7,317 · U.S. census
- Mule 1,431 · U.S. census
- Mulero 1,015 · U.S. census
- Mulet 413 · U.S. census
- Mull 9,377 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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