Jürg

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jürg is a given name, most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., oberdeutsche Form von.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 585◐
  • DEGermany1 in 57K
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈126 ●

across 5 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
83 ●

8.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 203K ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

JürgLatin · German●3.7K records
ЮргCyrillic · Russian●50 records
เยิร์กThai · Thai●14 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jurg in CH Switzerland, US United States, NL Netherlands and 14 more, Juerg in UA Ukraine, AT Austria, TH Thailand and 4 more and Юрг in RU Russia.

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●

männl. Vom., oberdeutsche Form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jürg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#3813,3883.1K rec.——Jurg83
DE Germany—2,1431.9K rec.—listedJürg50
US United States—1,8121.6K rec.——Jurg75
UA Ukraine—633644 rec.——Juerg6
AU Australia—236253 rec.——Jurg30
GB United Kingdom—154142 rec.——Jurg13
AT Austria—11754 rec.—5Juerg12
BR Brazil—10524 rec.——Jurg16
CA Canada—10093 rec.——Jurg12
NL Netherlands—85168 rec.1 in 203K148Jurg18
TH Thailand—7760 rec.—#926,329Juerg15
ZA South Africa—7583 rec.——Jurg8

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Languages●

  • German3K79%
  • 2988%
  • English1063%
  • French762%
  • Spanish461%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German2,97879%
2988%
English1063%
French762%
Spanish461%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jürg is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name763 records spelled Jürg4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, India

    Also written Jurg, Jūrǧ, Jūrg

  • French given name90 records spelled Jürg3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, France, United States

    Also written Jurg, Jùrg

  • Norwegian given name28 records spelled Jürg6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Denmark

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Jurg

  • Croatian given name27 records spelled Jürg10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Jurg, Јург

  • Indonesian given name24 records spelled Jürg4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Jurg

  • Czech given name23 records spelled Jürg6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jurg, Jűrg

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05101520200520102015202017 · 2017

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Jürg in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 2001–2020
Yearrecords
200110
200210
200310
200411
200511
200612
200713
200815
200914
201014
201114
201214
201314
201415
201516
201616
201717
201817
201917
202017

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 20 years between 2001–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Jürg Baur, b. 1918Jürg Marmet, b. 1927Jürg Federspiel, b. 1931Jürg Schubiger, b. 1936Jürg Löw, b. 1946Jürg Fröhlich, b. 1946Jürg Peter Buser, b. 1946Jürg Amann, b. 1947Jürg Röthlisberger, b. 1955Jürg Grossen, b. 1969

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●

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Jürg
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—44#9,376
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24#22,031
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#28,205
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202017—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201917—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201817—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201717—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201616—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201516—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201415—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200815—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201314—

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 37 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jürg?
We estimate roughly 126 people bear Jürg (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Jürg have the most bearers?
Jürg is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled jurg.
How common is Jürg compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Jürg is the 38th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
Is Jürg a male or female name?
Jürg is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Jürg mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., oberdeutsche Form von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Jürg” — the 38th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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