Dünner
surname · Latin script
Meaning: comparative degree of dünn
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Dünner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 21K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 328K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
404 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Dunner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 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)comparative degree of dünn
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dünner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 404 | 1 in 21K | 404 | Dünner | 14 |
| US United States | 307 | 1 in 1.1M | 419 | Dunner | 161 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Dunner | 40 |
| DE Germany | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 609K | — | Dünner | 26 |
| AU Australia | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 781K | — | Dunner | 23 |
| AT Austria | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Dunner | 5 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Dunner | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 415K | — | Dunner | 1 |
404 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)- Joseph Hirsch Dünnerb. 1833PLPolish author (1833–1911)
- Baruch Dünnerb. 1877DEHolocaust victim (born 1877)
- Bertha Dünnerb. 1882DEHolocaust victim (born 1882)
- Helen Dünnerb. 1899CH(1899-1985)
- Josef Hirsch Dunnerb. 1913DEBritish rabbi (1913-2007)
- Aba Dunnerb. 1937benzi dunner (1937–2011)
- David L. Dunnerb. 1940American psychiatrist
- Yehudah Aryeh Dinerb. 1953ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi
- Leslie Dunnerb. 1956USAmerican composer and conductor
- Lukas Dunnerb. 2002ATAustrian racing driver
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 404 | #3,267 |
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 Dünner mean, and where does it come from?
- comparative degree of dünn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Dünner have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 404 people named Dünner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dünner.
- Where is Dünner most common?
- Dünner is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 21 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dünner?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 404 people named Dünner in 2024, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%BCnnerThe 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, “Dünner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.