Schurr
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu obd. 'geschirr(e)'/mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Schurr is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 31K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 112K
- CACanada≈1 in 230Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
South Sudan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Schuerr in SS South Sudan.
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)Übername zu obd. 'geschirr(e)'/mhd. schurr? für einen hitzigen, jähzornigen Menschen; 1095 Träger
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Schurr 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 | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Schurr | 95 |
| US United States | — | 1,379 | 1 in 241K | 1.5K | Schurr | 228 |
| SS South Sudan | #668 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Schuerr | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Schurr | 35 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 403K | 19 | Schurr | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 75 | 1 in 112K | 75 | Schurr | 18 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 163K | — | Schurr | 17 |
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 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hans Schurrb. 1864DEGerman architect (1864–1934)
- Viktor Schurrb. 1898DEGerman theologian
- Benno Schurrb. 1919DEGerman author (1919-2002)
- Wayne Schurrb. 1937USAmerican baseball player (1937–2024)
- Dieter Schurrb. 1941DEGerman association football player
- Anna Maria Lorussob. 1973ITnot in their usual namesemiotician, university teacher (1973-)
- Christian Schurrb. 1984MXMexican swimmer
- Mike SchurrUSAmerican DJ
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,567 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 75 | #13,773 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 19 | #93,697 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Schurr mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu obd. 'geschirr(e)'/mhd.
- In which country does Schurr have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Schurr in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schurr.
- How common is the name Schurr?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,379 people named Schurr in 2010, about 1 in 241 thousand residents.
- How common is Schurr compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Schurr is the 668th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schurrThe 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, “Schurr” — the 668th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.