Chur
loc · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Chur is a name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in German and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Chur (a town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland).
- ESSpain1 in 82K◐
- ARArgentina1 in 299K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈946 ●
- Sources
- 79 ●
- 1 in 82K ◐
across 7 countries
4.2K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Coira in ES Spain, US United States, AR Argentina and 12 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Chur (a town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 608 | 620 rec. | 1 in 82K | 608 | Coira | 55 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 215 | 212 rec. | — | — | Coira | 6 |
| US United States | — | 164 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 2M | 164 | Coira | 79 |
| AR Argentina | — | 152 | 873 rec. | 1 in 299K | 152 | Coira | 32 |
| PT Portugal | — | 114 | 7 rec. | — | — | Chur | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 75 | 75 rec. | — | — | Coira | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 61 | 63 rec. | — | listed | Coira | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #595 | 58 | 233 rec. | — | — | Coira | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 49 | 30 rec. | — | — | Coira | 7 |
| MX Mexico | — | 35 | 43 rec. | — | — | Coira | 13 |
| CO Colombia | — | 31 | 32 rec. | — | — | Coira | 6 |
| IT Italy | — | 25 | 33 rec. | — | listed | Coira | 5 |
Roughly 608 people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 82K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
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Languages●
- German4.3K10%
- Portuguese4751%
- Hindi1631%
- English961%
- French231%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 4,267 | 10% |
| Portuguese | 475 | 1% |
| Hindi | 163 | 1% |
| English | 96 | 1% |
| French | 23 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Chur 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 English, town, Switzerland
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Russian, Chur Ivashkov, peasant. 1500.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, overwhelming; intense
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, lenited form of cur
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 96 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Chur?
- We estimate roughly 946 people bear Chur (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Chur have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 608 people bear Chur in Spain, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled coira.
- How common is Chur compared with other names?
- In Puerto Rico, Chur is the 595th most common surname of 6,916 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Chur mean?
- Recorded meaning: Chur (a town, the capital of Graubünden canton, Switzerland)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Chur” — the 595th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.