Kurnik

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Kurnik is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English62%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Kurnik in English.

• Polish11%

  hencoop, henhouse (coop where hens are kept)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• German5.2%

  from sl. 'Hühnerstall'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Kurnik is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Курник, Корник, Курнік, Kornik

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Kurník

26 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Kurnik is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground that had been cleared by fire, from kuriti ‘to make a fire’, formed with the agent noun suffix -nik.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Russian, Mikhailo Levont'ev syn Kurnika. 1528.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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.

• Max Kurnikb. 1819PLGerman writer and theatre critic (1819–1881)
• Eva Kurnikb. 1997SISlovene writer
• Janez KurnikSIresearcher
• Jelka KurnikSIresearcher
• Vili KurnikSIresearcher
• Blaž KurnikSISlovenian biologist
• Andrej KurnikSISlovenian political scientist
• Jurij KurnikSIresearcher
• Matej KurnikSIresearcher
• Franc KurnikSISlovene photographer

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Where does the name Kurnik come from?

topographic name for someone who lived by a piece of ground that had been cleared by fire, from kuriti ‘to make a fire’, formed with the agent noun suffix -nik. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

What are other forms of the name Kurnik?

In the etymology graph, Kurczak is a form of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Kurnik?

In Polish /kurɲik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Kurnik mean?

In Polish, hencoop, henhouse (coop where hens are kept)

In which country does Kurnik have the most bearers?

In Poland, the national register counted about 978 people named Kurnik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurnik.

Where is Kurnik most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurnik is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 3.5 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Kurnik?

In Poland, the national register counted 978 people named Kurnik in 2026, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.