Koury
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkaʊɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koury is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: variant of Khoury.
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Arabicخُورِيّḵūriyy“curate, priest”(inferred from the name graph)via Khouri
- Latincuria(inferred from the name graph)via Khouri
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Khoury.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
- Allan Kouryb. 1930CACanadian politician (1930-2004)
- Eneida Figueiredo Kouryb. 1961BRpolitician from Brazil
- Josh Kouryb. 1977USAmerican filmmaker (born 1977)
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)
Attested in 16 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #15,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,664 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #17,063 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 499 | #17,123 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #81,062 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 17 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #37,856 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #164,659 |
| 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 Koury mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Khoury. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Koury?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkaʊɹi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Koury have the most bearers?
- Koury is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Koury?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kouryThe 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, “Koury”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.