Pur
loc · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from the bittern, Old English pūr; first attested Edric Pur 1066 DB (C)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pur is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 67K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 73K
- DKDenmark1 in 534K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pur 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 67K (inferred from the name graph)
159 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
nickname from the bittern, Old English pūr; first attested Edric Pur 1066 DB (C)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pur 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.
159 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sit-pro, pluck
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
In English, Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, pure, mere, sheer (nothing other than)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Puruborá.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, apocopic form of pure
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Aleksander PurSIresearcher
- Katja PurSISlovenian 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 159 | #10,677 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 158 | #6,251 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 103 | #5,679 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 60 | #39,582 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 29 | #10,948 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #36,324 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Pur mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from the bittern, Old English pūr; first attested Edric Pur 1066 DB (C) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Pur have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 159 people named Pur, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pur most common?
- Pur is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 67 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pur?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 159 people named Pur, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/purThe 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, “Pur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.