Kourie

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/koʊʊɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kourie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • MLMali≈1 in 108K
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 159K

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.

Sweden (measured from records)

400 people

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kourie 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.

Where Kourie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden4001 in 26K400Kourie15
ZA South Africa≈360 est.≈1 in 159K—Kourie16
ML Mali≈180 est.≈1 in 108K—Kourie1
DE Germany≈90 est.≈1 in 893K—Kourie28
US United States≈79 est.≈1 in 4.2MlistedKourie79
SY Syria≈79 est.≈1 in 245K—Kourie9
NL Netherlands451 in 384K45Kourie8

400 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kourie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kourié

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Kourié

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalDear Ms Kourie,
InformalHi Kourie,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kourie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—400#2,288
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200745#32,945
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Kourie?
A machine transcription gives /koʊʊɹi/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kourie have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 400 people named Kourie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kourie.
Where is Kourie most common?
Kourie is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kourie?
In Sweden, the national register counted 400 people named Kourie, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.

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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, “Kourie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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