Neukirch
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Church-based place name; variants Neukirchen and Neukirchner show plural and -er formation
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɔʏcʰɪʁç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Neukirch is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- PLPoland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Church-based place name; variants Neukirchen and Neukirchner show plural and -er formation.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Neukirch is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, topographic name for someone who lived by the new church. Middle High German niuwe ‘new’ + kirche ‘church’, or a habitational name from any of several places so named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Herkunfts-/Wohnstättename zu mhd. nīwe kirche; 747 Träger. Typ zeigt Grundform ohne Suffix und Varianten mit -en sowie niederl. Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Ort-/Hofname zu neu + kirch(e); kurze Form ohne -en/-er, Belegzahl 747.
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)
- Benjamin Neukirchb. 1665DEGerman poet and translator
- Heinrich von Zedlitz und Neukirchb. 1863PL(1863-1943)
- Karl Neukirchb. 1864DEGerman gymnast (1864–1941)
- Dieter Neukirchb. 1927DEGerman geographer (1927-2012)
- Harald Neukirchb. 1928DEGerman opera singer (tenor)
- Jürgen Neukirchb. 1937DEGerman mathematician (1937–1997)
- Karl-Heinz Neukirchb. 1961DEGerman association football player
- Dagmar Neukirchb. 1972DEGerman politician
- Thomas NeukirchDEresearcher
- F. X. Neukirchauthor in the Alsatian dialect
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 304 | #69,562 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 273 | #71,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 261 | #70,052 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 126 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 126 | #24,890 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 101 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 101 | #29,338 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #53,216 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Neukirch mean, and where does it come from?
- Church-based place name; variants Neukirchen and Neukirchner show plural and -er formation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Neukirch?
- A machine transcription gives /nɔʏcʰɪʁç/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Neukirch have the most bearers?
- Neukirch is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/neukirchThe 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, “Neukirch”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.