Kuhs
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle Low German kuse ‘cudgel’, ‘club’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of clubs or as a nickname for a stocky person (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kuʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Kuhs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 140Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 400K
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1M
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 Kuhs 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)
≈600 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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.
How to pronounce Kuhs
- Portuguese:/kuʃ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Middle Low German kuse ‘cudgel’, ‘club’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of clubs or as a nickname for a stocky person.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Kuhs is found
(measured from records)Kuhs 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 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 140K | — | Kuhs | 55 |
| US United States | 261 | 1 in 1.3M | 274 | Kuhs | 105 |
| BR Brazil | 197 | 1 in 1.1M | 197 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 273K | — | Kuhs | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Kuhs | 5 |
| SE Sweden | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 368K | — | Kuhs | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | Kuhs | 4 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Kuhs | 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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Kuhs is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Magoņu salmiņi
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Joachim Kuhsb. 1956DEGerman politician
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kuhs mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle Low German kuse ‘cudgel’, ‘club’, probably applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker of clubs or as a nickname for a stocky person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuhs?
- In Portuguese /kuʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kuhs?
- Mondonomo estimates about 596 people named Kuhs in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuhs. After it come United States, Brazil, Austria and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kuhs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 261 people named Kuhs in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/kuhsThe 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, “Kuhs”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.