Küper
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: cooper, barrel-maker (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Küper is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 21K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K
- PLPoland1 in 147K
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 Küper 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)
- Record sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kuper in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 2 more and Kueper in GH Ghana.
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 surname: cooper, barrel-maker.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Küper is found
(measured from records)Küper 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 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Kuper | 92 |
| US United States | 1,650 | 1 in 202K | 1.7K | Kuper | 266 |
| NL Netherlands | 827 | 1 in 21K | 827 | Kuper | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 189K | — | Kuper | 16 |
| PL Poland | 260 | 1 in 147K | 135 | Kuper | 3 |
| GH Ghana | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Kueper | 3 |
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; the dfa-band-3 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)Küper is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu Küper/Kuper ‘Böttcher, Fassbinder’; nordwestdt. Variante mit -er/-e. Bearer count: 1164.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)- Heinrich Küperb. 1888DEGerman adventurer
- Elisabeth Küperb. 1901DEGerman politician (1901-1991)
- Ursula Küperb. 1937DEGerman swimmer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Küper mean, and where does it come from?
- Occupational surname: cooper, barrel-maker. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Küper?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Küper in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuper. After it come United States, Netherlands, South Africa and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Küper most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Küper is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Küper?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,650 people named Küper in 2010, about 1 in 202 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%BCperThe 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, “Küper”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.