Kurten
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝtən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurten is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 22K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 189K
- DEGermany≈1 in 323K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- 1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈560 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Finland
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 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurten 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 419K | — | Kurten | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 494 | 1 in 429K | 494 | — | 1 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Kurten | 21 |
| FI Finland | 258 | 1 in 22K | 258 | Kurten | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Kurten | 55 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Xavier Kurtenb. 1769DEGerman landscape architect (1769-1840)
- David Kurtenb. 1971GBBritish politician (born 1971)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 494 | #17,292 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 57 | #20,271 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kurten?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝtən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kurten have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 557 people named Kurten in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurten.
- Where is Kurten most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kurten is densest in Finland — about 1 in 22 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kurten?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 494 people named Kurten, about 1 in 429 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kurten?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurtenThe 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, “Kurten”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.