Knaur
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A knot or burl in a tree
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Knaur is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Poland.
- Poland (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 1 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From mhd. knūre ‘Knorren, Knoten, Fels’; transferred: plumper person. Bearer count: 10. Occupation/trait: personal characteristic.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
How Knaur is read
(measured from records)Knaur is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English74%
A knot or burl in a tree.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German14%
From mhd. knūre ‘Knorren, Knoten, Fels’; transferred: plumper person. Bearer count: 10. Occupation/trait: personal characteristic.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knaur counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 9 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 5 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | listed | — | — |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)- Mauritius Knauerb. 1613DEnot in their usual nameGerman religious figure (1613–1664)
- Vincenz Knauerb. 1828ATnot in their usual nameAustrian philosopher and theologian (1828–1894)
- Friedrich Knauerb. 1850ATnot in their usual nameAustrian zoologist (1850–1926)
- Virginia Knauerb. 1915USnot in their usual namepolitician (1915-2011)
- Georg Nicolaus Knauerb. 1926DEnot in their usual nameGerman born American scholar of Latin literature (1926–2018)
- Walter Knauerb. 1937DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1937–2013)
- Christian Knauerb. 1952DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician
- Anja Knauerb. 1979DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress
- Tim Knauerb. 1981DEnot in their usual nameGerman voice actor
- Anna Knauerb. 1995DEnot in their usual nameGerman cyclist
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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #142,822 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #153,634 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #197,822 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Knaur come from?
- From mhd. knūre ‘Knorren, Knoten, Fels’; transferred: plumper person. Bearer count: 10. Occupation/trait: personal characteristic. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- What does the name Knaur mean?
- In English, A knot or burl in a tree.
- In which country does Knaur have the most bearers?
- Knaur is most frequently recorded in Poland.
What do you want to know about Knaur?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knaurThe 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, “Knaur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.