Kurşun
surname · Latin script
Meaning: leaden
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuɾʃun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kurşun is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 44K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 62K
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
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kursun in DE Germany.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
leaden
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kurşun 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 | #647 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Kurşun | 58 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Kurşun | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 331K | — | Kursun | 48 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Kurşun | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 130 | 1 in 90K | 130 | Kurşun | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Kurşun | 5 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Cansu Kurşunb. 1995TRTurkish association football player (born 1995)
- Orhan Kurşunb. 2002TRTurkish association football player (born 2002)
- Merxas Kursunb. 2012CHSwiss gymnast
- Olcay KurşunTRTurkish researcher
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 5 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Kurşun mean, and where does it come from?
- leaden Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kurşun?
- A machine transcription gives /kuɾʃun/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Kurşun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Kurşun in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kurşun.
- How common is the name Kurşun?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 130 people named Kurşun in 2008, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Kurşun compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Kurşun is the 647th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kur%C5%9FunThe 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, “Kurşun” — the 647th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.