Duer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Duer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: noircisseur ; calomniateur.
- USUnited States1 in 300K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 46K
- DKDenmark1 in 93K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Duer itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Dür in AT Austria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
noircisseur ; calomniateur
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Duer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Duer | 1 |
| US United States | 1,108 | 1 in 300K | 1.2K | Duer | 200 |
| AT Austria | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Dür | 22 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 943K | — | Duer | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Duer | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | 104as Dur | 1 in 166K | 104 | — | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | 94as Dür | 1 in 89K | 94 | Duer | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 63 | 1 in 93K | 63 | — | 1 |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Duer 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 Luxembourgish, thither, there, over there (to that place)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of due
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, noircisseur ; calomniateur
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- William Duerb. 1743USUnited States lawyer, politician and businessman (1743-1799)
- William Alexander Duerb. 1780USUnited States lawyer, jurist and educator (1780–1858)
- John Duerb. 1782USAmerican jurist (1782–1858)
- William Duerb. 1805USAmerican congressman from New York (1805-1879)
- Caroline King Duerb. 1865USAmerican writer and magazine editor
- Katherine Duer Mackayb. 1878USAmerican suffragist and socialite (1878–1930)
- Douglas Duerb. 1887USAmerican artist and illustrator (1887–1964)
- Alva Duerb. 1904USAmerican basketball player-coach
- Melinda Duerb. 1963GBchemist, biochemist
- Carolina Duerb. 1978ARArgentinian boxer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Duer mean, and where does it come from?
- noircisseur ; calomniateur Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Duer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Duer in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled duer.
- How common is the name Duer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,108 people named Duer in 2010, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Duer?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/duerThe 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; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Duer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.