Loar

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Loar is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: unexplained. The name is recorded in both England and Scotland.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 158K◐
  • IEIreland1 in 206K
  • SGSingapore1 in 219K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.1K ●

across 2 countries

Sources
209 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 158K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

unexplained. The name is recorded in both England and Scotland. It may be a variant of Scottish Lour, a habitational name from Lour, formerly a part of the parish of Meathielour.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Loar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,10715K rec.1 in 158K2.1KLoar209
PH Philippines828767 rec.——Loar14
GB United Kingdom459468 rec.——Loar18
CA Canada219221 rec.——Loar17
AU Australia198210 rec.——Loar5
RU Russia7377 rec.——Loar4
IT Italy7279 rec.—12Loar3
CN China6564 rec.——Loar3
DE Germany5050 rec.—1Loar6
IE Ireland4949 rec.——Loar2
SG Singapore4444 rec.——Loar3
BR Brazil250 rec.1 in 8.5M38—1

Roughly 2.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 158K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English18K83%
  • Spanish1.1K5%
  • 5082%
  • Portuguese2141%
  • German1881%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English17,75783%
Spanish1,1165%
5082%
Portuguese2141%
German1881%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Loar is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname1.6K records spelled Loar5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Mexico, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lo-Ar, LóAr

  • French surname154 records spelled Loar2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France

    Also written Lo-Ar

  • Indonesian surname124 records spelled Loar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States

    Also written Lo-Ar

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Loar is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Spanish, to praise

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • unexplained.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In osp, alternative form of laudar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lad, to praise; to give thanks

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, indefinite plural of lo

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05010015020052010201520202025104 · 2024

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Loar in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 2004–2025
Yearrecords
20041
20122
20142
20153
20163
20173
20184
201911
202018
202115
202250
202358
2024104
202561

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 14 years between 2004–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Loar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.1K#14,233
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,731
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#14,959
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—268#1,770
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2024104—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—62#3,577
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202561—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202358—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)202250—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202238—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—29#80,303
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—25#168,311

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 44 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Loar?
We estimate roughly 2.1 thousand people bear Loar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Loar have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.1 thousand people bear Loar in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled loar.
Where is Loar most common?
Loar is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 158 thousand people carrying it.
What does the name Loar mean?
Recorded meaning: unexplained. The name is recorded in both England and Scotland.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Loar”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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