Cure
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A method, device or medication that restores good health
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kjʊɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cure is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 288K(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 32K
- COColombia≈1 in 38K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cure is read(measured from records)
Cure is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English49%
A method, device or medication that restores good health.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
inflection of curar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French18%
care, concern
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cure 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Cure | 1 |
| CO Colombia | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 38K | 3 | — | 5 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 148 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 1,154 | 1 in 288K | 1.4K | Cure | 225 |
| BR Brazil | 439 | 1 in 482K | 439 | — | 3 |
| PE Peru | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Cure | 15 |
| SG Singapore | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Cure | 5 |
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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the co-datosgov-candidates register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cure is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ang, inflection of ċēosan:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zza, dwarf (small person)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, medical attention
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alfred Capel-Cureb. 1826British photographer and army officer (1826-1896)
- Armand Cureb. 1919USProfessional basketball and football player (1919-2003)
- Carlos Cureb. 1944COColombian ambassador to Venezuela and businessman
- Jah Cureb. 1978JMJamaican musician
- Johanna Cureb. 1978COColombian actor y model
- Joseph Cureb. 1984USactor (1984–2015)
- Amy Cureb. 1992AUAustralian cyclist
- Öznur Cüreb. 1997TRTurkish para archer (born 1997)
- Travis Cureactor
- William CureGBEnglish master mason
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #22,334 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 439 | #19,116 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 269 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 244 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 229 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 224 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 201 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 198 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 194 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 177 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Cure mean, and where does it come from?
- A method, device or medication that restores good health. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cure?
- A machine transcription gives /kjʊɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Cure?
- In the etymology graph, Curate is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Cure have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Cure in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cure.
- How common is the name Cure?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,154 people named Cure in 2010, about 1 in 288 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cure?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cureThe 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, “Cure”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.