Kuder
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from German werg 'tow, hemp fibers'; also from 'wildcat' or 'dove' nicknames
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkjudɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuder is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 51K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 280K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
951 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
from German werg 'tow, hemp fibers'; also from 'wildcat' or 'dove' nicknames
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuder 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 951 | 1 in 350K | 1K | Kuder | 14 |
| PL Poland | 744 | 1 in 51K | 375 | Kuder | 33 |
| SI Slovenia | 224 | 1 in 9.4K | 224 | Kuder | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 30 | 1 in 280K | 30 | — | 3 |
| IN India | 11 | 1 in 121M | 11 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 8 | 1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 2 |
951 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Kuder is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1. metonymic occupational name for someone who worked or dealt with tow (hemp, broken strands of flax), early modern German kuder. 2. nickname from the southern dialect term Kuder ‘wildcat’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, male wildcat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname des Flachshändlers zu obd. kūder 'Werg, Flachsabfall'. 339 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Richard Kuderb. 1852CHGerman architect (1852–1912)
- Anton Kuderb. 1870SISlovene jurist (1870-1944)
- René Kuderb. 1882FRFrench painter (1882-1962)
- Jože Kuderb. 1938SIresearcher
- Tadeusz Kuderb. 1952PLPolish biologist
- Uta-Maria Kuderb. 1957DEGerman politician
- Kathryn Immonenb. 1971CAnot in their usual nameCanadian comic book and webcomic writer
- Sebastjan KuderSIresearcher
- Aaron KuderUScomic book artist
- Lucija KuderSIresearcher
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,516 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 951 | #25,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 906 | #25,591 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 375 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 375 | #8,854 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 369 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 369 | #8,801 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 224 | #1,862 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 11 | #113,257 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 8 | #80,416 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #27,157 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kuder mean, and where does it come from?
- from German werg 'tow, hemp fibers'; also from 'wildcat' or 'dove' nicknames Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Kuder?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkjudɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuder have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 951 people named Kuder, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuder.
- Where is Kuder most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuder is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kuder?
- In the United States, the national register counted 951 people named Kuder in 2010, about 1 in 350 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuderThe 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, “Kuder”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.