Kurosh
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Kurosh is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
- SESweden1 in 785K
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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈140 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kurosh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | 6 | Kurosh | 93 |
| DE Germany | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | listed | Kurosh | 30 |
| IR Iran | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Kurosh | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Kurosh | 38 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 755K | — | Kurosh | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 445K | 5 | Kurosh | 9 |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | Kurosh | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the de-munich-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kurosh Payab. 1956ATresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-2621-0834
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Kurosh?
- In the etymology graph, Cyrus is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Kurosh a male or female name?
- Kurosh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Kurosh?
- Mondonomo estimates about 137 people named Kurosh in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurosh. After it come Germany, Iran, United Kingdom and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kurosh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurosh is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kurosh?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 13 people named Kurosh, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kurosh?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuroshThe 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, “Kurosh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.