Kurvits
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Kurvits is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 2.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 68K
- SESweden1 in 1.5M
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kurvits is found
(measured from records)Kurvits 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: the ee-stat-nimed register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ants Kurvitsb. 1887EEEstonian general (1887-1943)
- Raoul Kurvitzb. 1961EEnot in their usual nameEstonian artist (born 1961)
- Andres Allanb. 1965EEnot in their usual nameEstonian poet (1965-1988)
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kurvits?
- Mondonomo estimates about 590 people named Kurvits in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurvits. After it come Finland, United States, Canada and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kurvits?
- In Finland, the national register counted 82 people named Kurvits, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Kurvits compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Kurvits is the 137th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurvitsThe 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, “Kurvits” — the 137th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.