Kurš

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Kurš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: course, exchange rate.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 439Kas Курс(inferred from the name graph)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 8.8K
  • PLPoland1 in 76K

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 Kurš 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.

Poland (measured from records)

502 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
92 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
KuršLatin(measured from records)
КурсCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Курс in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan and Kurs in PL Poland, US United States, EE Estonia.

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)

course, exchange rate

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kurš 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 Kurš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland5021 in 76K264Kurs23
RU Russia≈320 est.≈1 in 439K—Курс92
TW Taiwan≈220 est.≈1 in 110K—Курс1
BY Belarus≈180 est.≈1 in 53K—Курс11
US United States≈150 est.≈1 in 2.2MlistedKurs13
EE Estonia≈140 est.≈1 in 8.8KlistedKurs4
FI Finland481 in 116K48—1

502 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḵurs, Kurs

  • Estonian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Kurs, Kürs

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Kurš is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latvian, which, who

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, saista salikta teikuma komponentu ar palīgteikumu, kas konkretizē šajā teikuma komponentā minēto vietniekvārdu, un vienlaikus norāda uz predikatīvo attieksmi starp tiem

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, saista salikta teikuma komponentu ar palīgteikumu, norādot uz pieļāvuma attieksmi starp tiem un pastiprinot nojēgumu par šo attieksmi

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, norāda uz nenoteiktu (priekšmeta, parādības, norises) kārtu, secību, pazīmi (starp līdzīgiem priekšmetiem, parādībām, norisēm)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, norāda uz (kā, parasti ar dzīvas būtnes nojēgumu saistīta) noliegumu, neiespējamību

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, norāda uz dzīvu būtni (no noteiktas grupas, daudzuma), par ko izteikts jautājums

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kurš mean, and where does it come from?
course, exchange rate Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
In which country does Kurš have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 502 people named Kurš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurs.
How common is the name Kurš?
In Poland, the national register counted 502 people named Kurš in 2026, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.

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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, “Kurš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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