Gurkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Yuri or Georgi (see George)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɝkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 43Kas Гуркин(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 197Kas Гуркін
- USUnited States1 in 878K
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 Gurkin 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- 1 in 878K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Гуркин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гуркин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Гуркін in UA Ukraine.
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)
patronymic from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Yuri or Georgi (see George).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Гуркин | 119 |
| US United States | 379 | 1 in 878K | 396 | Gurkin | 9 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Гуркін | 14 |
| BY Belarus | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Гуркин | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 218K | 153 | Гуркин | 26 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Гуркин | 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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
Gurkin 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 Basque, "(L), obséquieux" Lh .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Grigory Gurkinb. 1870RUpainter (1870-1937)
- Pavel Gurkinb. 1966RURussian sport shooter
- Lazarb. 1969RUnot in their usual nameRussian orthodox priest (born 1969)
- Iefim Gourkineb. 1992RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
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 10 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 396 | #55,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 392 | #50,178 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 379 | #54,418 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Gurkin mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Yuri or Georgi (see George). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gurkin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɝkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gurkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Гуркин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gurkin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gurkin is densest in the United States — about 1 in 878 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gurkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 379 people named Gurkin in 2010, about 1 in 878 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurkinThe 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, “Gurkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.