Kirsh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jewish or Americanized spelling of German Kirsch (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Kirsh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Kirsh is also written קירש in Hebrew.
- CACanada≈1 in 180Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 270Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 530Kfew records
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 Kirsh 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 232 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 180K (inferred from the name graph)
8,764 named Kirsch, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kirsh in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled קירש in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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)Jewish or Americanized spelling of German Kirsch.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kirsh is found
(measured from records)Kirsh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,764as Kirsch | 1 in 38K | 8.8K | Kirsh | 232 |
| BR Brazil | 1,578as Kirsch | 1 in 134K | 1.6K | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 323as Kirsch | 1 in 36K | 323 | — | 2 |
| IL Israel | 272as קירש | 1 in 32K | 272 | קירש | 19 |
| PL Poland | 244as Kirsch | 1 in 157K | 135 | קירש | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 242as Kirsch | 1 in 35K | 242 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Kirsh | 78 |
| DK Denmark | 86as Kirsch | 1 in 68K | 86 | — | — |
8,764 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling kirsch. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Herb Kirshb. 1929USAmerican politician
- Yoram Kirshb. 1945ILIsraeli physicist
- David Kirshb. 1950CACanadian cognitive scientist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kirsh mean, and where does it come from?
- Jewish or Americanized spelling of German Kirsch. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kirsh?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Kirsch, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Belgium, Israel and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kirsh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,764 people named Kirsch in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kirsh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kirshThe 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, “Kirsh” — ranked 3771st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.