Kuhr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. occupational name for a guard or watchman on a tower
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuhr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 34K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 302K
- BZBelize≈1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kühr in AT Austria.
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)
1. occupational name for a guard or watchman on a tower. Middle Low German kure. 2. from a short form of Kunrat (see Konrad).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuhr 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 131K | — | Kuhr | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Kuhr | 101 |
| US United States | 1,102 | 1 in 302K | 1.1K | Kuhr | 195 |
| GH Ghana | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Kuhr | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Kühr | 14 |
| DK Denmark | 120 | 1 in 49K | 120 | — | 1 |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Kuhr | 1 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Victor Kuhrb. 1882DKDanish philosopher (1882–1948)
- Heinrich Kuhrb. 1892DEGerman politician (1892-1971)
- Benno Kuhrb. 1896DEGerman politician
- Fritz Kuhrb. 1899DEGerman painter (1899-1975)
- Ernst Kuhrb. 1912DEGerman actor and voice actor (1912–1999)
- Lenny Kuhrb. 1950NLDutch singer-songwriter
- Michael Kuhrb. 1962DEGerman kickboxer
- Paul Kuhrb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Stefanie-Sophie Kuhrb. 1986DEGerman badminton player
- Thomas KuhrDEGerman particle physicist
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,892 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,153 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 120 | #4,569 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- Where does the name Kuhr come from?
- 1. occupational name for a guard or watchman on a tower. Middle Low German kure. 2. from a short form of Kunrat (see Konrad). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuhr?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kuhr mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. occupational name for a guard or watchman on a tower.
- In which country does Kuhr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Kuhr in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuhr.
- How common is the name Kuhr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,102 people named Kuhr in 2010, about 1 in 302 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuhr?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuhrThe 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, “Kuhr”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.