Kürten
loc · Latin script
Meaning: from ON Kürten (Köln) (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kürten is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 37K
- BRBrazil1 in 429K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kurten in TR Türkiye, US United States.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from ON Kürten (Köln)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kürten is found
(measured from records)Kürten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Kürten | 62 |
| BR Brazil | 494 | 1 in 429K | 494 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 258 | 1 in 22K | 258 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 230 | Kurten | 11 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Kurten | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 23 | 1 in 444K | 23 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 1 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Peter Kürtenb. 1883DEGerman serial killer (1883-1931)
- Dieter Kürtenb. 1935DEGerman sports journalist
- Dina Kürtenb. 2000DEGerman dubbing actress
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
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kürten mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Kürten (Köln) Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kürten?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Kürten in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kürten. After it come Brazil, Finland, United States and Türkiye; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kürten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kürten is densest in Finland — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kürten?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 494 people named Kürten, about 1 in 429 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BCrtenThe 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, “Kürten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.