Kueck
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle Low German kUken ‘chicken’, possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble chicken in some way or alternatively a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkuk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kueck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 26Kas Kuck(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 205Kas Kuck
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 296K
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 Kueck itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 296K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named Kuck, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kuck in US United States, DE Germany, IT Italy and 3 more.
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 Middle Low German kUken ‘chicken’, possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble chicken in some way or alternatively a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kueck 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Kuck | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Kuck | 108 |
| US United States | 1,625as Kuck | 1 in 205K | 1.7K | Kuck | 240 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Kueck | 1 |
| IT Italy | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 287K | — | Kuck | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Kuck | 17 |
| SG Singapore | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Kuck | 14 |
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. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 314 | #60,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 297 | #66,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 289 | #72,473 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kueck mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle Low German kUken ‘chicken’, possibly a nickname for someone thought to resemble chicken in some way or alternatively a metonymic occupational name for someone who kept poultry. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kueck?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkuk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kueck have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Kuck in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kueck?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,625 people named Kuck in 2010, about 1 in 205 thousand 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/kueckThe 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, “Kueck”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.