Stur

surname · Latin script

Meaning: stubborn

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

/stuɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 317K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 474K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.2M

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

105 people

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 317K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

stubborn

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stur 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 Stur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1051 in 2M105Stur17
AR Argentina961 in 474K96Stur26
US United States≈56 est.≈1 in 5.9MlistedStur6
BE Belgium371 in 317K37—1
CZ Czechia91 in 1.2M9——

105 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Stur is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Stuer, Stüer, Stueer, Stür, Štúr

  • Bulgarian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Щур, Štur, Щur

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Štúr, Stúr, Stür

  • Czech surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia

    Also written Štúr, Štur

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Stúr

22 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Stur is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In enm, alternative form of store

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

  • In rup, pillar, column

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

  • In ovd, big, large

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

  • In Romanian, icicle

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

  • In Breton, gouvernail ; commandes ; direction

    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)

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)

FormalEstimado/a Stur,Dear Stur, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Stur,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Stur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—105#61,079
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—96—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200837#32,166
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Stur mean, and where does it come from?
stubborn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Stur?
A machine transcription gives /stuɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What are other forms of the name Stur?
In the etymology graph, Stoer is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Stur have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 105 people named Stur, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stur.
Where is Stur most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stur is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 317 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stur?
In Brazil, the national register counted 105 people named Stur, about 1 in 2.0 million 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, “Stur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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