Kord
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Bauernwehr (typical weapon of the common people in the Middle Ages and early modern times, which was particularly widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kord is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- PLPoland1 in 259K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 135 (measured from records)
- 1 in 228K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Bauernwehr (typical weapon of the common people in the Middle Ages and early modern times, which was particularly widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kord 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kord is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Cord; Cordt: männl. Vom., niederdeutsche Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Akan, (tet. kwara?) j?Ln-, gourd; calabash, a vessel made from one half of a dry gourd scooped out and used for various purposest s. sakora, nsoase, kdroklima; cf. apdkyi, tod
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In Cebuano, a long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, time, occasion
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, smallsword
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)
- Kazimierz Kordb. 1930PLPolish conductor (1930-2021)
- Victor Kordb. 1935USAmerican artist educator (born 1935)
- Bernard Coardb. 1945GDnot in their usual nameGrenadian Deputy Prime Minister in the People's Revolutionary Government of the New Jewel Movement
- Phyllis Coardb. 1946GDnot in their usual namepolitician
- Melody Kordb. 1978HUHungarian pornographic actress
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 193 | #89,172 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 192 | #95,115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 93 | #66,867 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 79 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 79 | #36,065 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 69 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #39,372 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #39,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Kord mean, and where does it come from?
- Bauernwehr (typical weapon of the common people in the Middle Ages and early modern times, which was particularly widespread in the 15th and 16th centuries) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Kord?
- In the etymology graph, Conrad, Corrado and Coen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kord have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Kord in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kord.
- Where is Kord most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kord is densest in Norway — about 1 in 228 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kord?
- In the United States, the national register counted 192 people named Kord in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kord?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kordThe 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, “Kord”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.