Knüpfer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Berufsname für den Schuhmacher; zu mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/knʏp͡fɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knüpfer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.1M
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 30K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈890 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Turks & Caicos Islands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Knupfer in US United States, CH Switzerland, TC Turks & Caicos Islands 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)Berufsname für den Schuhmacher; zu mnd. knīp 'gebogenes Messer, Schustermesser'. Bearer count: 578.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knüpfer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 90K | listed | Knüpfer | 68 |
| BR Brazil | 259 | 1 in 817K | 259 | — | — |
| AO Angola | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Knupfer | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 123 | 1 in 68K | 123 | Knupfer | 15 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Knupfer | 78 |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 599K | — | Knupfer | 1 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Knupfer | 1 |
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: the dfa-band-5 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)- Nicolaus Knüpferb. 1609DEGerman-born Dutch painter (1609–1655)
- Sebastian Knüpferb. 1633DEGerman composer
- Beneš Knüpferb. 1844CZCzech painter (1844–1910)
- Marie Knüpfer-Eglib. 1872ATsoprano, wife of Paul Knüpfer (1872-1924)
- Kurt Knüpferb. 1913DEGerman politician (1913-2008)
- Uwe Knüpferb. 1955DEGerman journalist
- Kerstin Knüpferb. 1963DEGerman handball player
- Hans Knüpferb. 1977DEPh.D. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn 2008
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Knüpfer?
- A machine transcription gives /knʏp͡fɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Knüpfer mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname für den Schuhmacher; zu mnd.
- In which country does Knüpfer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 891 people named Knüpfer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knüpfer.
- How common is the name Knüpfer?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 259 people named Knüpfer, about 1 in 817 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/kn%C3%BCpferThe 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, “Knüpfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.