Furst
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A Jewish name adopted from German Fürst ‘prince’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈfɝst/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Furst is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 8.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 132K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Fürst in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more and Fuerst in BR Brazil.
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)
A Jewish name adopted from German Fürst ‘prince’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Furst 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 | #694 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Fürst | 106 |
| US United States | — | 2,521 | 1 in 132K | 2.5K | Furst | 299 |
| CH Switzerland | #934 | 1,213 | 1 in 6.9K | 1.2K | Fürst | 33 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,087 | 1 in 195K | 1.1K | Fuerst | 23 |
| AT Austria | #339 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Fürst | 56 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 332 | 1 in 32K | 333 | Fürst | 20 |
| NO Norway | — | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | Fürst | 15 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Furst is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Eye dialect spelling of first.
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)
- William Furstb. 1852USAmerican composer (1852–1917)
- Henry Furstb. 1893USAmerican journalist, writer and theatre director (1893-1967)
- Arthur Furstb. 1914USAmerican toxicologist and cancer researcher
- Harold Furstb. 1916USAmerican businessman (1916-2011)
- Peter Furstb. 1922USanthropologist
- Alan Furstb. 1941USnovelist (born 1941)
- Anton Furstb. 1944USBritish production designer (1944-1991)
- Laurent Furstb. 1965FRFrench politician
- Juliane Fürstb. 1973DEGerman-British historian
- Nathan Furstb. 1978USAmerican television and film composer
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,333 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,795 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,668 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.1K | #8,603 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 174 | #9,113 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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)
- 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
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 Furst mean, and where does it come from?
- A Jewish name adopted from German Fürst ‘prince’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Furst?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈfɝst/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Furst have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Furst in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fürst.
- Where is Furst most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Furst is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 6.9 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Furst?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,521 people named Furst in 2010, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Furst compared with other names?
- In Germany, Furst is the 694th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Furst?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/furstThe 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, “Furst” — the 694th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.