Kuhrt
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. nickname for a short man, from Middle Low German kort ‘small’, ‘short’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kuhrt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 210K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
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)1. nickname for a short man, from Middle Low German kort ‘small’, ‘short’. 2. variant of Kord or Kurd, short forms of Konrad.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kuhrt is found
(measured from records)Kuhrt 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Kuhrt | 81 |
| US United States | 443 | 1 in 751K | 443 | Kuhrt | 150 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Kuhrt | 42 |
| AU Australia | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 765K | — | Kuhrt | 18 |
| CA Canada | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kuhrt | 10 |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | Kuhrt | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 408K | listed | — | 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; 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)- Amélie Kuhrtb. 1944GBBritish historian (1944–2023)
- Nicola Kuhrtb. 1974DEGerman journalist and author
- Henriette Kuhrtb. 1977DEGerman author
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kuhrt come from?
- 1. nickname for a short man, from Middle Low German kort ‘small’, ‘short’. 2. variant of Kord or Kurd, short forms of Konrad. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kuhrt mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. nickname for a short man, from Middle Low German kort ‘small’, ‘short’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kuhrt?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Kuhrt in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuhrt. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kuhrt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 443 people named Kuhrt in 2010, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuhrt?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuhrtThe 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, “Kuhrt”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.