Fuerst
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfwɛɹst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Fuerst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 8.7Kas Fürst(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 13Kas Fürst
- USUnited States1 in 132Kas Furst
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 Fuerst 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)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 named Fürst, est.
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fürst in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more and Furst in US United States.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Fuerst 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 | #694 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Fürst | 106 |
| US United States | — | 2,521as Furst | 1 in 132K | 2.5K | Furst | 299 |
| CH Switzerland | #934 | 1,213as Fürst | 1 in 6.9K | 1.2K | Fürst | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,087as Furst | 1 in 195K | 1.1K | Fuerst | 23 |
| AT Austria | #339 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Fürst | 56 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 332as Fürst | 1 in 32K | 333 | Fürst | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 174as Furst | 1 in 31K | 174 | Fürst | 15 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Fuerst | 4 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Alfred Fuerstb. 1866DEHolocaust victim (born 1866)
- Ida Fuerstb. 1868DEHolocaust victim (born 1868)
- Tzameret Fuerstb. 1971ILisraeli-American social entrepreneur (born 1971)
- Timothy S. FuerstUSeconomist
- Ilyse Morgenstein Fuersthistorian
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,495 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,573 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,273 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 122 | #54,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Fuerst?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfwɛɹst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Fuerst have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Fürst in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Fuerst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,521 people named Furst in 2010, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Fuerst compared with other names?
- In Germany, Fuerst is the 694th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Fuerst?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/fuerstThe 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, “Fuerst” — the 694th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.