Jurg
given name · German · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jurg 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 Juerg in UA Ukraine, AT Austria, TH Thailand and 4 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.
Sources 1
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●
- German3.7K27%
- English2.1K16%
- Chinese2K15%
- Portuguese1.3K9%
- Spanish9187%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| German | 3,728 | 27% |
| English | 2,134 | 16% |
| Chinese | 2,038 | 15% |
| Portuguese | 1,264 | 9% |
| Spanish | 918 | 7% |
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●
- Jürgen Moserb. 1928CHnot in their usual nameGerman mathematician (1928–1999)
- Jürgen Habermasb. 1929DEnot in their usual nameGerman sociologist and philosopher (1929–2026)
- Udo Jürgensb. 1934ATnot in their usual nameAustrian singer and composer (1934–2014)
- Jürgen Prochnowb. 1941DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor
- Jürgen Grabowskib. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer (1944–2022)
- Jürgen Klinsmannb. 1964DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer and manager
- Jürgen Kohlerb. 1965DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer
- Jürgen Kloppb. 1967DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football manager (born 1967)
- Jürgen Vogelb. 1968DEnot in their usual nameGerman actor, producer and singer
- Jürgen Melzerb. 1981ATnot in their usual nameAustrian tennis player
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 148 | #13,684 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 85 | #4,863 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 72 | #9,616 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #93,139 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jurg?
- We estimate roughly 126 people bear Jurg (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jurg have the most bearers?
- Jurg is most frequently recorded in Switzerland, where it is most often spelled jurg.
- How common is Jurg compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Jurg is the 38th most common given name of 33,890 given names recorded there.
- Is Jurg a male or female name?
- Jurg 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/jurgThe 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, “Jurg” — the 38th most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.