Kürt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Kurd
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kürt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 538(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 538
- NONorway1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- 1 in 538 (inferred from the name graph)
74,867 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kurt 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(measured from records)
A Kurd
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kürt 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.
74,867 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Kürt 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 Hungarian, horn (music instrument)
as a wordEtymological Dictionary of Hungarian
In German, inflection of küren:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hungarian, horn, French horn
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, a kind of tree
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Kürt mean, and where does it come from?
- A Kurd Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kürt have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 75 thousand people named Kürt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurt.
- Where is Kürt most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kürt is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 538 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kürt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 74,867 people named Kürt in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kürt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BCrtThe 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, “Kürt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.