Kirn
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the place name Kirn; also from tsch
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɝn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kirn is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 699K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.8M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the place name Kirn; also from tsch. krn 'notch' or křm?
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Kirn | 15 |
| US United States | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | 1.4K | Kirn | 33 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 699K | — | Kirn | 5 |
| VN Vietnam | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | — | Kirn | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Kirn | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kirn | 4 |
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 2000. 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)
Kirn 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 German, 1. habitational name for someone from Kira, a small town in Rhineland-Palatinate, the name of which probably derives from Middle High German kUme ‘mill’. 2. in eastern Germany, possibly from a Sorbian word meaning ‘ravine’ or ‘drain’, related to Czech krn ‘ravine’, krne ‘gutter’, ‘water channel’, ‘drain’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In sco, a churn
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)
- Paul Kirnb. 1890DEGerman medievalist (1890-1965)
- Richard Kirnb. 1902DEGerman politician
- Richard Kirnb. 1905DEGerman journalist and author (1905–1979)
- Michael Kirnb. 1939DEGerman author
- Rose Kirnb. 1941DEGerman university teacher
- Roman Kirnb. 1952SISlovenian diplomat
- Walter Kirnb. 1962USAmerican novelist
- Borut Kirnb. 1969SIresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9085-2308
- Gal Kirnb. 1980SISlovene philosopher
- Branko KirnSIresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #19,974 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,468 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Kirn come from?
- from the place name Kirn; also from tsch. krn 'notch' or křm? Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Kirn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɝn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Kirn mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the place name Kirn; also from tsch.
- Is Kirn a male or female name?
- Kirn is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Kirn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 997 people named Kirn in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kirn.
- How common is the name Kirn?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,000 people in Pakistan have Kirn as their first given name, about 1 in 234 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Kirn?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kirnThe 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, “Kirn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.