Koerfer
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰɔɛʁfɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Koerfer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 96Kas Körfer(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 700K
- BEBelgium1 in 902K
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 Koerfer 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)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 700K (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 named Körfer, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Körfer 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
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(measured from records)
Koerfer 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Körfer | 52 |
| FR France | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | 1 | Koerfer | 40 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | listed | Koerfer | 18 |
| PL Poland | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Koerfer | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 13 | 1 in 902K | 13 | Koerfer | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | Koerfer | 16 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jacob Koerferb. 1875DEGerman architect (1875–1930)
- Jacques Koerferb. 1902DEGerman entrepreneur and art collector (1902-1990)
- Hanns Koerferb. 1909DEGerman architect (1909–1994)
- Thomas Koerferb. 1944CHSwiss film director
- Daniel Koerferb. 1955DEGerman historian of modern age
- Adrian Koerferb. 1955CHSwiss art collector
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 13 | #62,343 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 12 | #53,184 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 5 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 4 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 3 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 1 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Koerfer?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰɔɛʁfɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Koerfer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 831 people named Körfer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Koerfer most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koerfer is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 700 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Koerfer?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 13 people named Koerfer in 2008, about 1 in 902 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Koerfer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koerferThe 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, “Koerfer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.