Kuter
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a butcher or sausage maker, from Middle High German, Middle Low German kuter ‘butcher’ (from kut ‘entrails’, ‘tripe’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkjutɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuter is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 911Kas Kueter(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 63K
- BYBelarus≈1 in 133K
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 Kuter 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)
- Sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 63K (inferred from the name graph)
608 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kueter in US United States, LS Lesotho and Küter in DE Germany.
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)
occupational name for a butcher or sausage maker, from Middle High German, Middle Low German kuter ‘butcher’ (from kut ‘entrails’, ‘tripe’).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuter 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 | 608 | 1 in 63K | 306 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 187K | listed | Küter | 46 |
| US United States | 365as Kueter | 1 in 911K | 404 | Kueter | 132 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 355K | — | Kuter | 6 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 269K | — | Kuter | 10 |
| BY Belarus | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Kuter | 1 |
| LS Lesotho | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Kueter | 1 |
608 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Kuter is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, cutter (single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Leo K. Kuterb. 1897USAmerican art director
- Laurence S. Kuterb. 1905USU.S. Air Force General (1905-1979)
- Kay E. Kuterb. 1925USAmerican actor (1925-2003)
- Toomas Kuterb. 1965EEEstonian writer, singer and journalist (born 1965)
- Katarzyna KuterPLPolish pharmacologist
- Jeff KuterUSbasketball player
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 320 | #62,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 318 | #59,453 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 315 | #67,529 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 306 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 306 | #10,645 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 302 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 302 | #11,015 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Kuter mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a butcher or sausage maker, from Middle High German, Middle Low German kuter ‘butcher’ (from kut ‘entrails’, ‘tripe’). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuter?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkjutɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuter have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 608 people named Kuter, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuter most common?
- Kuter is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 63 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuter?
- In Poland, the national register counted 608 people named Kuter in 2026, about 1 in 63 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/kuterThe 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, “Kuter”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.