Kurang
surname · Latin script
Meaning: less (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Kurang is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 49th most common surname. Kurang is also written กรุง in Thai.
- NPNepal1 in 56as Gurung(measured from records)
- QAQatar≈1 in 900as Gurung
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.5Kas Gurung
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 Kurang 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.
- Nepal (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 345 (measured from records)
- 1 in 56 (inferred from the name graph)
543,790 named Gurung, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, as Gurung
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kurang in other scripts: Latin and Thai
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gurung in NP Nepal, IN India, QA Qatar and 3 more and Krug in US United States, DE Germany.
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)less
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Kurang is found
(measured from records)Kurang 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | #781 | 543,790as Gurung | 1 in 56 | 544K | Gurung | 140 |
| IN India | — | 27,320as Gurung | 1 in 49K | 27K | Gurung | 97 |
| DE Germany | #309 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | listed | Krug | 170 |
| US United States | — | 7,827as Krug | 1 in 42K | 14K | Krug | 345 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #92 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Gurung | 58 |
| HK Hong Kong | #159 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Gurung | 36 |
| QA Qatar | #49 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 903 | — | Gurung | 23 |
| BH Bahrain | #136 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Gurung | 13 |
543,790 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)Kurang 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 mqs, to be less
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kurang mean, and where does it come from?
- less Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kurang?
- In Nepal, the national register counted about 544 thousand people named Gurung, more than in any other country we hold. After it come India, Germany, United States and United Arab Emirates; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kurang most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Kurang itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Nepal's: the national register counts about 1 in 56 people named Gurung.
- How common is the name Kurang?
- In Nepal, the national register counted 543,790 people named Gurung in 2021, about 1 in 56 residents.
- How common is Kurang compared with other names?
- In Nepal, Kurang is the 781st most common surname of 25,881 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurangThe 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, “Kurang” — ranked 2nd in Nepal (NPHC 2021, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.