Kurgan
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: Maksim Kurgan, peasant. 1500 (A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Kurgan is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Belgium.
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- Belgium (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)habitational name for someone from a place called Kurgany in Belarus.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kurgan is read
(measured from records)Kurgan is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian36%
Maksim Kurgan, peasant. 1500.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- Turkish19%
castle, fortress
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kurgan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Kurgan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name for someone from a place called Kurgany in Belarus.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, kurgan (prehistoric burial mound in Central Asia)
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)- Laura Kurganb. 1961ZASouth African architect
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kurgan come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place called Kurgany in Belarus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kurgan mean?
- In Russian, Maksim Kurgan, peasant. 1500.
- In which country does Kurgan have the most bearers?
- Kurgan is most frequently recorded in Belgium, where it is most often spelled kurgan.
What do you want to know about Kurgan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurganThe 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, “Kurgan” — ranked 51884th in Belgium (Familienaam.be). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.