Knupfer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from knüpfen 'to tie'; by extension one who castrates livestock
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/knʊp͡fɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knupfer 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 Knüpfer in DE Germany.
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 knüpfen 'to tie'; by extension one who castrates livestock
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Knupfer 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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Knupfer 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, Berufsname für den Schuhmacher; zu mnd. knīp 'gebogenes Messer, Schustermesser'. Bearer count: 304.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Swiss knüpfen 'to limp slightly'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)- Edy Knupferb. 1912CHSwiss architect (1912-1979)
- Olivier Knupferb. 1965CHSwiss karateka
- Antonia Knupferb. 1992DEGerman association football player
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 259 | #29,795 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 123 | #9,394 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Knupfer mean, and where does it come from?
- from knüpfen 'to tie'; by extension one who castrates livestock Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Knupfer?
- A machine transcription gives /knʊp͡fɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Knupfer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 891 people named Knupfer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knüpfer.
- How common is the name Knupfer?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 259 people named Knupfer, 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/knupferThe 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, “Knupfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.