Kirš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/kɪrʃ/(machine-generated) Czech · model-generated
Kirš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From kirss (“cherry”).
- FIFinland1 in 72K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- HRCroatia1 in 352K
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 Kirš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
8,764 named Kirsch, 2010
recorded for this name
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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kirsch 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)From kirss (“cherry”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kirš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,764as Kirsch | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Kirsch | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 1,578as Kirsch | 1 in 134K | 1.6K | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 323as Kirsch | 1 in 36K | 323 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 244as Kirsch | 1 in 157K | 135 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 242as Kirsch | 1 in 35K | 242 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | 86as Kirsch | 1 in 68K | 86 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 77 | 1 in 72K | 77 | — | 1 |
8,764 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kirš mean, and where does it come from?
- From kirss (“cherry”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kirš?
- In Czech /kɪrʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kirš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Kirsch, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kirš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kirš is densest in Finland — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kirš?
- In Finland, the national register counted 77 people named Kirš, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kirš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kir%C5%A1The 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, “Kirš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.