Thur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Abbreviation of Thursday
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈðɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Thur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 860K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
- ATAustria≈1 in 72K
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 Thur 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 named Thuer, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Thür in DE Germany, CH Switzerland, AT Austria and Thuer in CN China.
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)
Abbreviation of Thursday.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Thur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Thuer | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 538 | 1 in 16K | 538 | Thür | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Thür | 36 |
| US United States | 387 | 1 in 860K | 387 | Thur | 150 |
| AT Austria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Thür | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | 87 | 1 in 199K | 87 | Thur | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 26 | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | — |
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); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Thur is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Albanian, to plait, braid, interweave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, lenited form of tur
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hugo Meier-Thurb. 1881DEGerman illustrator (1881-1943)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 387 | #53,419 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 385 | #57,177 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 382 | #51,233 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 87 | #21,168 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 26 | #18,709 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Thur mean, and where does it come from?
- Abbreviation of Thursday. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Thur?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈðɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Thur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Thuer in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Thur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Thur is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 16 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Thur?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 538 people named Thur in 2024, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Thur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/thurThe 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, “Thur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.