Kurum
surname · Latin script
Meaning: foundation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kuɾum/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurum is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 54K
- BEBelgium1 in 189K
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
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kürüm in CY Cyprus.
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)
foundation
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurum 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.
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kurum is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In trk-pro, soot
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In sks, sickness
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Akan, v, [red, kurunkurum] to bend, bow, crook, curve; to be bent, crooked, curving \ ok. nemu; osekan no ak.; ofasu no ak. = akuntun ; nkant6n{ ndntu akk. s^ addre; syn, kom, konton &c
as a wordDictionary of the Asante and Fante Language called Tshi (Chwee, Twi)
In trk-pro, сажа, копоть
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
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)
- Murat Kurumb. 1976TRMinister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change of the Republic of Turkey
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 77 | #33,746 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 62 | #22,397 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,508 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #81,780 |
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 Kurum mean, and where does it come from?
- foundation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kurum?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾum/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kurum have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.6 thousand people named Kurum in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurum.
- How common is the name Kurum?
- In India, the national register counted 77 people named Kurum, about 1 in 17 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurumThe 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, “Kurum”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.