Gürtner

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Berufsname: Gürtelmacher; bei Duden FamN 2005 als Berufsname des Gürtelmachers erklärt (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Gürtner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 1,779 people, counted by BFS in 2024.

  • CHSwitzerland1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 20Kfew records
  • DEGermany≈1 in 140K

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 Gürtner 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.

Switzerland (measured from records)

1,779 people, 2024

Record sources
148 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gurtner in US United States, CH Switzerland, FR France and 2 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)
recorded in German

Berufsname: Gürtelmacher; bei Duden FamN 2005 als Berufsname des Gürtelmachers erklärt. Bearer count: 232.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Gürtner is found

(measured from records)

Gürtner 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 Gürtner is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#5561,7791 in 4.7K1.8KGurtner51
DE Germany—≈610 est.≈1 in 136KlistedGürtner45
AT Austria—≈460 est.≈1 in 20K—Gurtner34
FR France—≈370 est.≈1 in 184K72Gurtner128
US United States—2501 in 1.3M375Gurtner148
NZ New Zealand—≈41 est.≈1 in 128K—Gurtner2

1,779 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the dfa-band-5 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)

Gürtner is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Switzerland, United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Gurtner

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Gurtner, Gűrtner

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gurtner

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Gurtner

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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Gürtner 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, Berufsname: mit Gurt/Gürtel verbundener Handwerker, wohl Gurt-/Gürtelmacher; Belegzahl 232.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

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)

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 3 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gürtner mean?
Recorded meaning: Berufsname: Gürtelmacher; bei Duden FamN 2005 als Berufsname des Gürtelmachers erklärt.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Gürtner?
In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Gürtner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurtner. After it come Germany, Austria, France and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Gürtner most common?
Gürtner is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gürtner?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,779 people named Gürtner in 2024, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Gürtner compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Gürtner is the 556th most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Gürtner” — ranked 562nd in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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