Kouros
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkuːɹɒs/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Kouros is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
- USUnited States1 in 3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kouros itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 named Κούρος, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Κουρος 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kouros 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 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 7 | Κουρος | 42 |
| US United States | 111 | 1 in 3M | 135 | Kouros | 48 |
| BE Belgium | 10 | 1 in 1.2M | 10 | Kouros | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 5 | 1 in 3.5M | 5 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | 4 | 1 in 9.6M | 4 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 3 |
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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)Kouros is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A sculpture of a naked youth in Ancient Greece, the male equivalent of a kore.
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)- Andreas Kourosb. 1918CYCypriot politician (1918-2017)
- Nikos Kourosb. 1928GRGreek actor
- Pantelis Kourosb. 1932CYformer Deputy Minister to the President of Cyprus (1932-2021)
- Yiannis Kourosb. 1956GRGreek ultramarathon runner (born 1956)
- Gilda Palinginisb. 1958GRnot in their usual nameanimator
- Alexis Kourosb. 1961IRIranian-Finnish writer and filmmaker
- Kristiina Kourosb. 1966FIFinnish lawyer and politician
- Alexandros Kourosb. 1993GRAlbanian-Greek footballer
- Alekos KourosGRGreek actor
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 135 | #131,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 106 | #143,847 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 10 | #71,043 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 5 | #75,509 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #226,488 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Kouros?
- In English /ˈkuːɹɒs/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kouros have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 147 people named Κούρος in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kouros most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kouros is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Greece holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kouros?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111 people named Kouros in 2010, about 1 in 3.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kouros?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kourosThe 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, “Kouros”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.