Kurhan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: kurgan, barrow; prehistoric burial mound
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuɾhan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurhan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 196K
- BEBelgium1 in 586K
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
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
kurgan, barrow; prehistoric burial mound
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurhan 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 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Kurhan | 39 |
| PL Poland | 195 | 1 in 196K | 100 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | listed | Kurhan | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 37 | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 20 | 1 in 586K | 20 | Kurhan | 10 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 100 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 100 | #29,985 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 95 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 95 | #30,835 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 20 | #47,548 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kurhan mean, and where does it come from?
- kurgan, barrow; prehistoric burial mound Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kurhan?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾhan/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kurhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Kurhan in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurhan.
- How common is the name Kurhan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 195 people named Kurhan in 2026, about 1 in 196 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurhanThe 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, “Kurhan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.