Kürz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kürz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Deverbal from kurzyć. Compare Czech kouř.
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6K
- USUnited States1 in 86K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 247 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kurz in DE Germany, US United States, AT Austria and 2 more.
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)Deverbal from kurzyć. Compare Czech kouř.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kürz 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 | #212 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Kurz | 182 |
| US United States | — | 3,874 | 1 in 86K | 3.9K | Kurz | 247 |
| AT Austria | #175 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Kurz | 95 |
| CH Switzerland | #939 | 1,150 | 1 in 7.3K | 1.1K | Kurz | 59 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,080 | 1 in 196K | 1.1K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 681 | 1 in 56K | 352 | Kurz | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 223 | 1 in 48K | 226 | — | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)- Hermann Kürzb. 1892DEGerman politician (1892-1941)
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kürz mean, and where does it come from?
- Deverbal from kurzyć. Compare Czech kouř. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kürz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Kürz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurz.
- How common is the name Kürz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,874 people named Kürz in 2010, about 1 in 86 thousand residents.
- How common is Kürz compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kürz is the 212th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BCrzThe 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, “Kürz” — the 212th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.