Kurza
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɝzə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurza is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 1Mas Курза(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 194K
- USUnited States≈1 in 10M
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 Kurza 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 70 (measured from records)
- 1 in 194K (inferred from the name graph)
197 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Курза in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus 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)
Plg. Kurzas, Kurzius (žr.). Galbūt sietina su liet. kūrzelis „mažas, menkas, nuskurdęs Žmogus ar gyvulys“ arba su liet. kurza „kas nevikrių judesių, nerangus; kuverza“ (LKŽ VI 984). Bet plg. lenk. Kurz, Kurza (S. Rospond, 1973, p. 461), brus. Kypsaj, Kypsin, rus. Kypaun (M. bupmina, 1969, c. 233).
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurza 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 197 | 1 in 194K | 105 | Kurza | 16 |
| RU Russia | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Курза | 70 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Курза | 11 |
| BY Belarus | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Курза | 11 |
| US United States | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 10M | listed | Kurza | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Курза | 8 |
197 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Kurza is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, Plg. Kurzas, Kurzius (žr.). Galbūt sietina su liet. kūrzelis „mažas, menkas, nuskurdęs Žmogus ar gyvulys“ arba su liet. kurza „kas nevikrių judesių, nerangus; kuverza“ (LKŽ VI 984). Bet plg. lenk. Kurz, Kurza (S. Rospond, 1973, p. 461), brus. Kypsaj, Kypsin, rus. Kypaun (M. bupmina, 1969, c. 233).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, Mezgls audumā, dzergzde, cirtas dzijā, pinkulis, kunkulis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, no koka mizas pagatavots trauciņš ogu lasīšanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Nicīgs apzīmējums kādai personai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Pīta kulba, ko liek uz ragavām
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Kartupeļu grozs, grezele
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 105 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 105 | #28,370 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 92 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 92 | #32,052 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 are other forms of the name Kurza?
- In the etymology graph, Kurzyna is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kurza?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝzə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kurza have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 197 people named Kurza, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurza.
- Where is Kurza most common?
- Kurza is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 194 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kurza?
- In Poland, the national register counted 197 people named Kurza in 2026, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kurzaThe 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, “Kurza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.