Dürr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the stem dür-/durr- 'dry'; also with place-name and house-name forms
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Dürr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.4K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 8.7K
- DKDenmark1 in 23K
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 Dürr 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Durr in US United States, GB United Kingdom and Duerr in BB Barbados.
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 the stem dür-/durr- 'dry'; also with place-name and house-name forms
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dürr is found
(measured from records)Dürr 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #592 | ≈9,600 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | listed | Dürr | 107 |
| US United States | — | 6,937 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Durr | 335 |
| CH Switzerland | #739 | 1,311 | 1 in 6.4K | 1.3K | Dürr | 32 |
| FR France | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 152 | Dürr | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Durr | 83 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Dürr | 23 |
| DK Denmark | — | 250 | 1 in 23K | 250 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | #833 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Duerr | 2 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)Dürr is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, dried up, desiccated, especially
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Übername zu ahd. durri, mhd. durre, dürre ‘dürr, trocken, mager’; auch entrundet als Dirr/Derr. 4786 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Zu mhd. dürre ‘dürr, trocken’; zeigt ü/u/o-Variation: Dürr, Durre, Dörr, Dorre, Doerr.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Familienname; Karte zeigt o/u- und ö/ü-Vokalvariation der Schreibungen. 4786 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, personal characteristic: thin, lean
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)- Ludwig Dürrb. 1878DEGerman airship designer (1878–1956)
- Hans-Peter Dürrb. 1929DEGerman physicist (1929-2014)
- Françoise Dürrb. 1942FRFrench tennis player
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dürr mean, and where does it come from?
- from the stem dür-/durr- 'dry'; also with place-name and house-name forms Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dürr?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.6 thousand people named Dürr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dürr. After it come United States, Switzerland, France and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dürr most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dürr is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dürr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,937 people named Dürr in 2010, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.
- How common is Dürr compared with other names?
- In Germany, Dürr is the 592nd most common surname of 765,306 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, “Dürr” — the 592nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.