Kørner
surname · Latin script
/kʰøɐˀnɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kørner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 4.9Kas Körner(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 56Kas Koerner
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 108Kas Koerner
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 Kørner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 339 (measured from records)
- 1 in 85K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Körner, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Koerner in US United States, GB United Kingdom, EG Egypt and 2 more, Körner in DE Germany, AT Austria, SE Sweden and Korner in CH Switzerland.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kørner 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #200 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Körner | 135 |
| US United States | — | 5,928as Koerner | 1 in 56K | 5.9K | Koerner | 339 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Koerner | 3 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Koerner | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Koerner | 67 |
| SE Sweden | — | 360as Körner | 1 in 28K | 360 | Körner | 19 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 298as Körner | 1 in 28K | 298 | Korner | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Körner | 34 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Koerner | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 64 | 1 in 85K | 64 | Kørner | 4 |
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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- Heinrich Louis Sophus Kørnerb. 1847DENorwegian photographer (1847-1902)
- Carl Kørnerb. 1849DENorwegian photographer
- John Kornerb. 1967DKnot in their usual nameDanish artist (born 1967)
- Max Emil Kørnerb. 1991NONorwegian cyclist
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 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 64 | #22,310 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Kørner?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰøɐˀnɐ/ (IPA) for Danish.
- In which country does Kørner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Körner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kørner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kørner is densest in Norway — about 1 in 85 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kørner?
- In Norway, the national register counted 64 people named Kørner, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Kørner compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kørner is the 200th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kørner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%B8rnerThe 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, “Kørner” — the 200th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.