Currie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Usually a place-name from Currie, Gaelic curraich ‘marsh’, near Edinburgh; early forms also occur as Corrie/Curry in Ayrshire and Annandale
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Currie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 345as Joachim(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 1.8Kas Joachim
- ATAustria≈1 in 2.1Kas Joachim
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 Currie 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 345 (inferred from the name graph)
≈230,000 named Joachim, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est., as Joachim
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Joachim in US United States, DE Germany, FR France and 4 more.
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)
Usually a place-name from Currie, Gaelic curraich ‘marsh’, near Edinburgh; early forms also occur as Corrie/Curry in Ayrshire and Annandale.
Sources 1
- Scottish Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Currie 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 | #55 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 345 | — | Joachim | 282 |
| US United States | — | 83,556as Kerry | 1 in 4K | 430K | Joachim | 264 |
| PL Poland | #601 | 10,818as Joachim | 1 in 3.5K | 11K | Joachim | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | 15K | Joachim | 6 |
| SE Sweden | #709 | 5,580as Joachim | 1 in 1.8K | 5.6K | Joachim | 81 |
| AT Austria | #267 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 1K | Joachim | 113 |
| NO Norway | #819 | 3,779as Joachim | 1 in 1.4K | 14K | Joachim | 79 |
| DK Denmark | — | 2,391as Joachim | 1 in 2.5K | 2.4K | — | 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); 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)
- Arthur Currieb. 1875CACanadian WWI general (1875–1933)
- Finlay Currieb. 1878GBScottish actor (1878-1968)
- Michael Currieb. 1928USAmerican actor (1928-2009)
- Sondra Currieb. 1947USAmerican actress
- Philip J. Currieb. 1949CACanadian paleontologist and museum curator
- Billy Currieb. 1950GBBritish multi-instrumentalist
- Cherie Currieb. 1959USAmerican rock musician, actress, and woodcarver, former member of The Runaways
- Momusb. 1960GBnot in their usual nameScottish songwriter and author (born 1960)
- Gordon Currieb. 1965CACanadian actor
- Matthew Currie Holmesb. 1974CACanadian actor
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)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 17K | #2,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 17K | #2,000 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 17K | #2,117 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #28,484 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 24 | #20,377 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 23 | #23,305 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #86,566 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #91,802 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Currie mean, and where does it come from?
- Usually a place-name from Currie, Gaelic curraich ‘marsh’, near Edinburgh; early forms also occur as Corrie/Curry in Ayrshire and Annandale. Recorded by Scottish Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Currie?
- A machine transcription gives /kəɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Currie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 232 thousand people named Joachim in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Currie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 83,556 people named Kerry in 2020, about 1 in 4.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Currie compared with other names?
- In Germany, Currie is the 55th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Currie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/currieThe 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, “Currie” — the 55th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.