Dur
loc · Latin script
Meaning: probably from the Hermunduren; also compared with später bezeugtes düren 'to endure' < Lat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dur is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 89K
- FRFrance≈1 in 153K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dür in TR Türkiye.
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)
probably from the Hermunduren; also compared with später bezeugtes düren 'to endure' < Lat. durare
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dur 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Dür | 58 |
| FR France | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 153K | 28 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 131 | — | 32 |
| NL Netherlands | 104 | 1 in 166K | 104 | — | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 94 | 1 in 89K | 94 | — | 4 |
| BE Belgium | 45 | 1 in 260K | 45 | — | 6 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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)
Dur 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 Polish, typhus (any of several similar diseases, characterized by high recurrent fever, caused by Rickettsia bacteria)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, second-person singular imperative of durmak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, hard, tough (difficult to penetrate)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, hard (resistant to pressure)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Major; in the major mode.
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)
- Cosmin Dur-Bozoancăb. 1998RORomanian footballer
- Ersin DurTRTurkish academic
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 131 | #133,930 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 104 | #18,496 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 47 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 45 | #28,063 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 45 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 40 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 28 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 25 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Dur come from?
- probably from the Hermunduren; also compared with später bezeugtes düren 'to endure' < Lat. durare Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Dur mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably from the Hermunduren; also compared with später bezeugtes düren 'to endure' < Lat.
- In which country does Dur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Dur in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dür.
- How common is the name Dur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Dur in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Dur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/durThe 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, “Dur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.