Kurki
loc · Latin script
Meaning: crane, Grus grus (large wading bird)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kurki is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Finland.
- Finland (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
crane, Grus grus (large wading bird)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurki counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | — | 6.3K | — | 56 |
| SE Sweden | — | 122 | — | 14 |
| ES Spain | — | 12 | — | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 1 | — | 6 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-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)
Kurki 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 Estonian, partitive singular of kurk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, crane (bird)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In izh, crane
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)
- Arvid Kurkib. 1464FIFinnish bishop
- Anna-Liisa Kurkib. 1926FIFinnish middle-distance runner
- Marja Kurkib. 1939FIFinnish fashion designer
- Lasse Kurkib. 1969FIFinnish musician, journalist and Production Manager of domestic music in Warner Music Finland
- Tuulikki Kurkib. 1971FIFinnish folkloristic
- Mikael Kurkib. 1987FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Visa Kurkib. 1988FIFinnish legal scholar
- Laura Kurkib. 1994FIFinnish swimmer
- Timo KurkiFIresearcher
- Eveliina KurkiFIFinnish singer
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 6.3K | #286 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 2.8K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 122 | #6,147 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12 | #109,635 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 6 | #89,778 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kurki mean, and where does it come from?
- crane, Grus grus (large wading bird) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kurki have the most bearers?
- Kurki is most frequently recorded in Finland.
What do you want to know about Kurki?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurkiThe 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, “Kurki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.