Kachur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Ukrainian kachur ‘drake’, applied as a nickname, a metonymic occupational name for a fowler, or (among Jews) an ornamental name (see Kacer, and compare Polish Kaczor)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kachur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.3Kas Качур(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 74Kas Качур
- PLPoland1 in 74K
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 Kachur 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 149 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 named Качур, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Качур in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus 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)
from Ukrainian kachur ‘drake’, applied as a nickname, a metonymic occupational name for a fowler, or (among Jews) an ornamental name (see Kacer, and compare Polish Kaczor).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kachur 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #745 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Качур | 41 |
| CN China | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 646K | — | Качур | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Качур | 120 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Kachur | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 516 | 1 in 74K | 264 | — | 2 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Качур | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Качур | 11 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Volodymyr Kachurb. 1930UAassociation football player (1930-1974)
- Eddie Kachurb. 1934CACanadian ice hockey player
- Oleksandr Kachurb. 1953chess player
- Pavlo Kachurb. 1953UAUkrainian politician
- Havrylo Kachurb. 1954UAassociation football player
- Wasyl Kaczurb. 1974UAnot in their usual nameassociation football player
- Ruslan Kachurb. 1982UAassociation football player
- Roman Kachurb. 1984UAUkrainian military personnel
- Yana Kachurb. 1997UAUkrainian sprinter
- Lera Kachurmusician
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 264 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 264 | #12,378 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 252 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 252 | #13,156 |
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 Kachur mean, and where does it come from?
- from Ukrainian kachur ‘drake’, applied as a nickname, a metonymic occupational name for a fowler, or (among Jews) an ornamental name (see Kacer, and compare Polish Kaczor). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kachur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Качур in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kachur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kachur is densest in Poland — about 1 in 74 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kachur?
- In Poland, the national register counted 516 people named Kachur in 2026, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Kachur compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kachur is the 745th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kachurThe 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, “Kachur” — the 745th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.