Gurung
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Gurung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.
- NPNepal1 in 56(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 572
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.1K
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 Gurung 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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56 (inferred from the name graph)
543,790 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Krug in US United States, DE Germany.
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)
Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurung 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | #781 | 543,790 | 1 in 56 | 544K | Gurung | 140 |
| IN India | — | 27,320 | 1 in 49K | 27K | Gurung | 97 |
| DE Germany | #309 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Krug | 170 |
| US United States | — | 7,827as Krug | 1 in 42K | 14K | Krug | 345 |
| HK Hong Kong | #159 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Gurung | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #92 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gurung | 58 |
| QA Qatar | #49 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 572 | — | Gurung | 23 |
| BH Bahrain | #136 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Gurung | 13 |
543,790 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Gurung is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tuw-sol, state
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)
- Amber Gurungb. 1938NPNepali musician
- Dev Gurungb. 1954NPNepalese politician
- Praveen Gurungb. 1962NPNepalese singer (1962–2000)
- Prabal Gurungb. 1974NPAmerican fashion designer (born 1979)
- Khem Raj Gurungb. 1975NPNepalese singer
- Robin Gurungb. 1992INfootballer
- Punam Gurungb. 1992NPbadminton player
- Jassita Gurungb. 1996NPNepalese actress
- Prabhat Gurungb. 2004Chinese association football player
- Chandra GurungNPNepalese ecologist
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 31 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Gurung mean, and where does it come from?
- Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Gurung have the most bearers?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 544 thousand people named Gurung, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurung.
- Where is Gurung most common?
- Gurung is densest in Nepal, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gurung?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 543,790 people named Gurung in 2021, about 1 in 56 residents.
- How common is Gurung compared with other names?
- In Nepal, Gurung is the 781st most common surname of 25,881 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurungThe 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, “Gurung” — the 781st most common surname in Nepal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.