Kurucu
surname · Latin script
Meaning: founder
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuɾudʒu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurucu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 22K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
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)
founder
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurucu 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Kurucu | 43 |
| CY Cyprus | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Kurucu | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 33 | 1 in 524K | 33 | Kurucu | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Kurucu | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Mustafa Kurucub. 1887TRTurkish scholar of religious studies and writer (1887–1960)
- Ali Ulvi Kurucub. 1922TRTurkish poet (1922–2002)
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 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 33 | #39,564 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #52,673 |
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
- What does the name Kurucu mean, and where does it come from?
- founder Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kurucu?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾudʒu/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kurucu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.2 thousand people named Kurucu in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurucu.
- How common is the name Kurucu?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 33 people named Kurucu in 2007, about 1 in 524 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kurucu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurucuThe 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, “Kurucu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.