Şur
surname · Latin script
Şur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Most likely from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian сур (sur), Serbo-Croatian sur. A less likely etymology connects it to Latin syrus, or links it with Italian soro.
- USUnited States1 in 477K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 158Kas Suer
- INIndia1 in 80K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şur itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 80K (inferred from the name graph)
16,669 people
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Suer in DE Germany, ID Indonesia, Süer in TR Türkiye, AT Austria and Sur in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Most likely from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian сур (sur), Serbo-Croatian sur. A less likely etymology connects it to Latin syrus, or links it with Italian soro.
Sources 6
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şur counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 16,669 | 1 in 80K | 17K | — | 75 |
| US United States | 698 | 1 in 477K | 816 | Sur | 195 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Süer | 15 |
| DE Germany | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Suer | 65 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Suer | 14 |
| AT Austria | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 198K | — | Süer | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | 28 | 1 in 121K | 28 | — | — |
16,669 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şur mean, and where does it come from?
- Most likely from a Slavic language. Compare Bulgarian сур (sur), Serbo-Croatian sur. A less likely etymology connects it to Latin syrus, or links it with Italian soro. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 4 other sources.
- In which country does Şur have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Şur, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Şur most common?
- Şur is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 80 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Şur?
- In India, the national register counted 16,669 people named Şur, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FurThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Şur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.