Kouris
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from northern Greek kouri ‘small forest’ or Aromanian curie ‘forest’, both from Turkish koru ‘small forest’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kuɾis/(machine-generated) Greek · model-generated · read from κουρης
Kouris is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- GRGreece≈1 in 7.9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 460Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Κουρης in GR Greece.
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)topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from northern Greek kouri ‘small forest’ or Aromanian curie ‘forest’, both from Turkish koru ‘small forest’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kouris 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 6 | Κουρης | 54 |
| US United States | 279 | 1 in 1.2M | 300 | Kouris | 147 |
| AU Australia | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 463K | — | Kouris | 43 |
| DE Germany | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Kouris | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Kouris | 26 |
| CA Canada | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Kouris | 25 |
| IE Ireland | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Kouris | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Kouris | 9 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers). 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)- Alexandros Kourisb. 1850GRGreek racewalker
- Vasilis KourisGRGreek actor
- Angela KourisCAresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-8193-4902
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 300 | #70,358 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 291 | #64,008 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 279 | #70,208 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Kouris mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived in a forest, from northern Greek kouri ‘small forest’ or Aromanian curie ‘forest’, both from Turkish koru ‘small forest’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kouris?
- In Greek /kuɾis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kouris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Kouris in Greece, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled κουρης.
- How common is the name Kouris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 279 people named Kouris in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million 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/kourisThe 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, “Kouris”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.