Currin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɔɹɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Currin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Lancs; Glasgow;. from Ó Corráin or Ó Corraidhín, see Curran . 2 Manx: see Corrin . 3 English, Scottish: variant of Curwen with loss of -w-.
- USUnited States1 in 110K(measured from records)
- CLChile≈1 in 7M
- ARArgentina1 in 711K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
3,026 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Lancs; Glasgow;. from Ó Corráin or Ó Corraidhín, see Curran . 2 Manx: see Corrin . 3 English, Scottish: variant of Curwen with loss of -w-. In 19th-century Lancs it became confused with Irish Curran and Manx Corrin.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Where in the world(measured from records)
Currin 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 | 3,026 | 1 in 110K | 3K | Currin | 70 |
| AR Argentina | 64 | 1 in 711K | 64 | Currin | 21 |
| CL Chile | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Currin | 23 |
| BR Brazil | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 105M | — | Currin | 3 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
3,026 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- David Maney Currinb. 1817USAmerican and confederate politician (1817-1864)
- Perry Currinb. 1928USAmerican baseball player (1928-2011)
- Brian Currinb. 1950ZASouth African lawyer and activist
- John Currinb. 1962USAmerican painter (b. 1962)
- Bernice CurrinNZNew Zealand artist (d. 1962)
- Sam CurrinAmerican judge
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 13 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3K | #10,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.9K | #10,191 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,113 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #319,434 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Currin mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): IoM; Lancs; Glasgow;. from Ó Corráin or Ó Corraidhín, see Curran . 2 Manx: see Corrin . 3 English, Scottish: variant of Curwen with loss of -w-. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Currin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɔɹɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Currin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.0 thousand people named Currin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled currin.
- Where is Currin most common?
- Currin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 110 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Currin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,026 people named Currin in 2010, about 1 in 110 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/currinThe 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, “Currin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.