Furstenburg

surname · Latin script

Furstenburg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 63K(inferred from the name graph)
  • KEKenya≈1 in 97K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 112K

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Kenya (inferred from the name graph)

≈550 people, est.

Sources
46 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)

Belarus, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

Furstenburg 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.

Where Furstenburg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KE Kenya≈550 est.≈1 in 97K—Furstenburg1
ZA South Africa≈500 est.≈1 in 112K—Furstenburg16
BY Belarus≈150 est.≈1 in 63K—Furstenburg1
US United States≈42 est.≈1 in 8MlistedFurstenburg46
LB Lebanon≈17 est.≈1 in 320K—Furstenburg1
ES Spain≈15 est.≈1 in 3.3M—Furstenburg1

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Furstenburg is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English (South Africa) surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa

    Also written Fürstenburg

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19501960197019801990James Furstenburg, b. 1959Peter Furstenburg, b. 1987Matt Furstenburg, b. 1989

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)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Furstenburg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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

In which country does Furstenburg have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 550 people named Furstenburg in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled furstenburg.
How common is the name Furstenburg?
Mondonomo estimates about 550 people in Kenya have Furstenburg as their first surname, about 1 in 97 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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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, “Furstenburg”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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