Düring
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a place/region name; bearers 1860
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Düring is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 31K
- DEGermany≈1 in 42K
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 Düring 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled During in US United States, CH Switzerland, ZA South Africa.
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)Toponymic surname from a place/region name; bearers 1860.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Düring 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 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Düring | 64 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 3 | — | 5 |
| US United States | 344 | 1 in 967K | 354 | During | 140 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | During | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 223 | 1 in 46K | 223 | Düring | 18 |
| DK Denmark | 189 | 1 in 31K | 189 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 162 | 1 in 52K | 162 | During | 8 |
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; the dfa-band-4 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables. 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)Düring is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Ausgangspunkt der Kurzform Dürig; zeigt n im Suffix -ing.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- Otto Fredrik Düringb. 1694SESwedish military personnel
- Johann Christian von Düringb. 16971697 Horneburg - 28 Dec 1766 Horneburg
- Auguste Crelingerb. 1795DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress (1795–1865)
- Josef Düringb. 1860CHSwiss politician (1860-1920)
- Regina Cossmannb. 1868DEnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1868)
- Ingemar Düringb. 1903SESwedish translator and classical philologist (1903–1984)
- Jan Erik Düringb. 1926NONorwegian film director (1926–2014)
- Michael Düringb. 1963DEGerman Slavist
- Niclas Düringb. 1990SESwedish yacht racer
- Deborah Düringb. 1994DEGerman Green Party politician
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 223 | #3,783 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 189 | #2,697 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 162 | #7,462 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 4 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Düring mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a place/region name; bearers 1860. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- In which country does Düring have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Düring in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled düring.
- How common is the name Düring?
- In the United States, the national register counted 344 people named Düring in 2010, about 1 in 967 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/d%C3%BCringThe 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, “Düring”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.