Kaür

surname · Latin script

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

Kaür is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 94th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From kaur (“loon, diver”).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
  • INIndia1 in 77K
  • NONorway1 in 2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

48,753 people, 2010

Sources
346 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kaur in IN India, US United States, ES Spain and 1 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)

From kaur (“loon, diver”).

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kaür 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.

Where Kaür is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—48,7531 in 6.8K75KKaur346
IN India#37817,2291 in 77K17KKaur217
ES Spain—11,5871 in 4.3K12KKaur59
NO Norway—2,7481 in 2K2.7K—42
SE Sweden—1,3961 in 7.3K1.4K—28
FI Finland—9281 in 6K928—15
JM Jamaica#94———Kaur4

48,753 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kaür is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, India

    Also written Kaur, Καούρ, Káür, Καουρ

  • Turkish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Türkiye, United Kingdom

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Kaur, Kàuṙ, Kâúr

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kaür under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kaür mean, and where does it come from?
From kaur (“loon, diver”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
In which country does Kaür have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Kaür, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kaur.
Where is Kaür most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kaür is densest in Norway — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kaür?
In the United States, the national register counted 48,753 people named Kaür in 2010, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
How common is Kaür compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Kaür is the 94th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kaür” — the 94th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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