Juerg
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Juerg is a given name, most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is the 38th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 83 ●
- 1 in 203K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
8.5K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Jurg in CH Switzerland, US United States, NL Netherlands and 14 more, Jürg in DE Germany, PE Peru, TR Türkiye 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #38 | 13,388 | 3.1K rec. | — | — | Jurg | 83 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,143 | 1.9K rec. | — | listed | Jürg | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,812 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Jurg | 75 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 633 | 644 rec. | — | — | Juerg | 6 |
| AU Australia | — | 236 | 253 rec. | — | — | Jurg | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 154 | 142 rec. | — | — | Jurg | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | 117 | 54 rec. | — | 5 | Juerg | 12 |
| BR Brazil | — | 105 | 24 rec. | — | — | Jurg | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 100 | 93 rec. | — | — | Jurg | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 85 | 168 rec. | 1 in 203K | 148 | Jurg | 18 |
| TH Thailand | — | 77 | 60 rec. | — | #926,329 | Juerg | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 75 | 83 rec. | — | — | Jurg | 8 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- German3.3K55%
- English97816%
- Vietnamese5429%
- Chinese2374%
- Portuguese1523%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 3,324 | 55% |
| English | 978 | 16% |
| Vietnamese | 542 | 9% |
| Chinese | 237 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 152 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Jürg Baurb. 1918DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer (1918-2010)
- Jürg Marmetb. 1927CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mountaineer (1927-2013)
- Jürg Federspielb. 1931CHnot in their usual nameSwiss writer (1931-2007)
- Jürg Schubigerb. 1936CHnot in their usual nameSwiss children's writer (1936-2014)
- Jürg Löwb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss actor
- Jürg Fröhlichb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mathematician, theoretical physicist, and university teacher (born 1946)
- Jürg Peter Buserb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mathematician
- Jürg Amannb. 1947CHnot in their usual nameSwiss author and dramatist (1947-2013)
- Jürg Röthlisbergerb. 1955CHnot in their usual nameSwiss judoka
- Jürg Grossenb. 1969CHnot in their usual nameSwiss politician and entrepreneur
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 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2023 | 2 | #11,459 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 1 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Juerg?
- We estimate roughly 126 people bear Juerg (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Juerg have the most bearers?
- Juerg is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled jurg.
- How common is Juerg compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Juerg is the 38th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
- Is Juerg a male or female name?
- Juerg 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.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/juergThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Juerg” — the 38th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.