Kūru
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kūru is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: table From Proto-Finnic *kuru (compare Estonian kuru), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kure (compare Komi-Zyrian кыр (kyr), Eastern Mari курык (kuryk), Khanty кор (kor)).
- FIFinland1 in 5.1K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 63K
- CZCzechia1 in 102K
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.
- Finland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
1,086 people
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 Kuru in FI Finland, US United States, IN India 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)
- Proto-Finnic*kurucompare Estonian kuru(measured from records)
- Proto-Finno-Ugric*kurecompare Komi-Zyrian кыр (kyr(measured from records)
table From Proto-Finnic *kuru (compare Estonian kuru), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kure (compare Komi-Zyrian кыр (kyr), Eastern Mari курык (kuryk), Khanty кор (kor)).
Sources 4
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Wiktionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kūru 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | 1,086 | 1 in 5.1K | 1.1K | Kuru | 11 |
| IN India | 337 | 1 in 3.9M | 337 | Kuru | 14 |
| SE Sweden | 163 | 1 in 63K | 163 | — | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | 126 | 1 in 137K | 126 | Kuru | 9 |
| US United States | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 147 | Kuru | 79 |
| CZ Czechia | 105 | 1 in 102K | 105 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 83 | 1 in 141K | 83 | Kuru | 10 |
1,086 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); MVČR — living population register 2017; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kūru mean, and where does it come from?
- table From Proto-Finnic *kuru (compare Estonian kuru), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kure (compare Komi-Zyrian кыр (kyr), Eastern Mari курык (kuryk), Khanty кор (kor)). Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol I (A-Dh) and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 2 other sources.
- Is Kūru a male or female name?
- Kūru is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kūru have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kūru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuru.
- Where is Kūru most common?
- Kūru is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kūru?
- In Finland, the national register counted 1,086 people named Kūru, about 1 in 5.1 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C5%ABruThe 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, “Kūru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.