Kural
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kural is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: rule.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 8.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 18K
- PLPoland1 in 74K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
rule
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kural 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #911 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Kural | 72 |
| PL Poland | — | 516 | 1 in 74K | 259 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Kural | 41 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | Kural | 65 |
| IN India | — | 74 | 1 in 18M | 74 | Kural | 29 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kural | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 64 | 1 in 167K | 64 | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 265K | — | Kural | 9 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Kural 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.
In Filipino, pen; corral; stockade (enclosure for animals)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A Tamil poetic couplet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, on the left
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Adnan Kuralb. 1910TRTurkish diplomat (1910–1972)
- Erkan Kuralb. 1936TRTurkish association football player (1936–2008)
- Orhan Kuralb. 1950TRTurkish writer (1950–2020)
- René Kuralb. 1959DKDanish architect and author
- Tomáš Kuralb. 1963CZresearcher
- Jülide Kuralb. 1965TRTurkish actor (born 1965)
- Kaan Kuralb. 1974TRTurkish sportscaster (born 1974)
- Arda Kuralb. 1980TRTurkish actor (born 1980)
- Ahmet Kuralb. 1982TRTurkish actor (born 1982)
- Gözde Kuralb. 1987TRTurkish film director (born 1987)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 259 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 259 | #12,831 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 257 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 257 | #12,715 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 74 | #34,655 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 64 | #24,129 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 63 | #9,566 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 25 | #2,297 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 10 | #21,781 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 6 | #24,518 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #2,867 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #232,963 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
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 Kural mean, and where does it come from?
- rule Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kural have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Kural in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kural.
- How common is the name Kural?
- In Poland, the national register counted 516 people named Kural in 2026, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
- How common is Kural compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kural is the 911th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kural” — the 911th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.