Kurri
loc · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Kurri is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Probably a descriptivized variant of other similar words, such as kurna, kurnaali, itself perhaps ultimately from kuurna, among other meanings "a trough used to filter wort".
- USUnited States1 in 19Kas Currie(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 474Kas Kurra
- FIFinland1 in 8.3K
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 Kurri 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.3K (inferred from the name graph)
17,234 named Currie, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kurre in IN India, US United States, AT Austria and 1 more.
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)
Probably a descriptivized variant of other similar words, such as kurna, kurnaali, itself perhaps ultimately from kuurna, among other meanings "a trough used to filter wort".
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurri 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 | 17,234as Currie | 1 in 19K | 17K | Kurre | 131 |
| IN India | 2,799as Kurra | 1 in 474K | 2.8K | Kurre | 88 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Kurre | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Kurri | 6 |
| FI Finland | 672 | 1 in 8.3K | 672 | — | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Kurre | 14 |
| NO Norway | 44as Currie | 1 in 124K | 44 | — | — |
17,234 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling currie. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Kurri 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.
In Finnish, skimmed milk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( R ), kurru ( Sal ), kurro ( Sal ) Ref.: A ( kurri, kurru ) ; VocPir 483 . "Grulla. Kurri bera, gari-azi; kurri gora, olo-azi " A . v. 1 kurlo. Ursuak ta kurruak ikusten . Garral EEs 1921, 108.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Jari Kurrib. 1960FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Vanessa Kurrib. 1977FIFinnish model
- Helén KurriFIeditor-in-chief of newspaper Östnyland
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 719 | #5,192 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 672 | #2,661 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 329 | #12,513 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 294 | — |
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 Kurri mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably a descriptivized variant of other similar words, such as kurna, kurnaali, itself perhaps ultimately from kuurna, among other meanings "a trough used to filter wort". Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kurri have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 17 thousand people named Currie, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kurri most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurri is densest in Finland — about 1 in 8.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kurri?
- In Finland, the national register counted 672 people named Kurri, about 1 in 8.3 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurriThe 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, “Kurri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.