Küfer

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from Küfer 'cooper, barrel maker'; also 'wine-cellar overseer'

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

Küfer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 111Kas Kuefer(inferred from the name graph)
  • CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 169K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

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 Küfer 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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈730 named Kuefer, est.

Sources
56 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 169K (inferred from the name graph)

Congo - Kinshasa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KueferLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kufer in US United States, PL Poland, CH Switzerland and 2 more and Kuefer in DE Germany.

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)

from Küfer 'cooper, barrel maker'; also 'wine-cellar overseer'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Küfer 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.

Where Küfer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany≈730 est.≈1 in 111K—Kuefer56
CD Congo - Kinshasa≈600 est.≈1 in 169K—Kufer1
NG Nigeria≈54 est.≈1 in 3.9M—Kufer3
US United States≈46 est.≈1 in 7.3MlistedKufer45
PL Poland≈40 est.≈1 in 966K—Kufer1
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9Kufer4

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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Küfer is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Kufer

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kufer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kufer

  • Croatian name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Kufer

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Küfer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, Occupational surname: cooper, barrel-maker.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, cooper

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Berufsname zu Küfer 'Fassmacher'; die Karte zeigt Vokalvarianten mit ü/ u/ ie sowie Doppelkonsonanz.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In German, from the occupation of cooper

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

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 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Küfer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20249#65,843

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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Küfer mean, and where does it come from?
from Küfer 'cooper, barrel maker'; also 'wine-cellar overseer' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Küfer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 725 people named Kuefer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Küfer?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 9 people named Küfer in 2024, about 1 in 934 thousand residents.

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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, “Küfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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