Kangur
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kangur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Sudan than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 22nd most common surname.
- EEEstonia1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- SDSudan≈1 in 15K
- FIFinland1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sudan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kangur 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.
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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Kangur is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, kangaroo (marsupial)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, kangaroo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Kalju Kangurb. 1925EEEstonian children's writer and poet (1925-1989)
- Paul Kangurb. 1926EEEstonian architect (1926-2015)
- Ülo Kangurb. 1943EEEstonian engineer (born 1943)
- Guido Kangurb. 1956EEEstonian actor (born 1956)
- Villu Kangurb. 1957EEEstonian actor, poet, translator, and scenarist (born 1957)
- Mart Kangurb. 1971EEEstonian poet, translator and philosopher (born 1971)
- Pille Lukin-Kangurb. 1973EEEstonian actress (born 1973)
- Andreas Kangurb. 1978EEEstonian legal scholar and film actor (born 1978)
- Kristjan Kangurb. 1982EEEstonian basketball player (born 1982)
- Martin Kangurb. 1992EEEstonian racing driver (born 1992)
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 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 679 | #32 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 673 | #39 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 673 | #32 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 258 | #6,056 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,159 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kangur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Kangur in the Sudan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kangur.
- Where is Kangur most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kangur is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Sudan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kangur?
- In Estonia, the national register counted 673 people named Kangur, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kangur compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Kangur is the 22nd most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kangur?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kangurThe 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, “Kangur” — the 22nd most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.