Dukurs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zvejas rīks (ar ko zvejo zivis, brienot pa ūdeni) - pie klūgas loka piestiprināts tīkla maiss ar garu, sašaurinātu galu
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Dukurs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 6.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 200K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Zvejas rīks (ar ko zvejo zivis, brienot pa ūdeni) - pie klūgas loka piestiprināts tīkla maiss ar garu, sašaurinātu galu
Cited for this meaning 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Dukurs is found
(measured from records)Dukurs 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.
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: 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)Dukurs is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Diegu cilpas putnu ķeršanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Stampa; dukuris
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Jautrs puika
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Sesks
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Dainis Dukursb. 1954LVLatvian skeleton coach (born 1954)
- Tomass Dukursb. 1981LVLatvian skeleton racer
- Martins Dukursb. 1984LVLatvian skeleton racer
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dukurs mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zvejas rīks (ar ko zvejo zivis, brienot pa ūdeni) - pie klūgas loka piestiprināts tīkla maiss ar garu, sašaurinātu galu
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dukurs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 300 people named Dukurs in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dukurs. After it come Estonia and Belgium; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Dukurs?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Dukurs in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
- How common is Dukurs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Dukurs is the 587th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dukursThe 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, “Dukurs” — the 587th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.