Juerg

given name · Latin script

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

Juerg is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 108Kas Jürg
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.7Mas Jurg

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 Juerg 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.

Switzerland (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
97 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

JuergLatin(measured from records)
ЮргCyrillic(measured from records)
เยิร์กThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jurg in CH Switzerland, US United States, NL Netherlands and 1 more and Jürg 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)

Juerg 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 Juerg is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CH Switzerland#32≈4,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Jurg97
DE Germany—≈750 est.≈1 in 108K—Jürg53
ZA South Africa—≈140 est.≈1 in 407K—Jurg8
US United States—≈120 est.≈1 in 2.7M—Jurg84
UA Ukraine—≈92 est.≈1 in 475K—Juerg6
NL Netherlands—85as Jurg1 in 203K148Jurg22
AT Austria—≈68 est.≈1 in 130K5Juerg11
LI Liechtenstein#21≈10 est.≈1 in 4K—Juerg6

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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Juerg is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Switzerland, United States, Brazil, Ukraine

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Jüerg

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jüerg

35 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Jürg Baur, b. 1918Jürg Marmet, b. 1927Jürg Federspiel, b. 1931Jürg Schubiger, b. 1936Jürg Löw, b. 1946Jürg Fröhlich, b. 1946Jürg Peter Buser, b. 1946Jürg Amann, b. 1947Jürg Röthlisberger, b. 1955Jürg Grossen, b. 1969
  • Jürg Baurb. 1918DEnot in their usual nameGerman composer (1918-2010)
  • Jürg Marmetb. 1927CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mountaineer (1927-2013)
  • Jürg Federspielb. 1931CHnot in their usual nameSwiss writer (1931-2007)
  • Jürg Schubigerb. 1936CHnot in their usual nameSwiss children's writer (1936-2014)
  • Jürg Löwb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss actor
  • Jürg Fröhlichb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mathematician, theoretical physicist, and university teacher (born 1946)
  • Jürg Peter Buserb. 1946CHnot in their usual nameSwiss mathematician
  • Jürg Amannb. 1947CHnot in their usual nameSwiss author and dramatist (1947-2013)
  • Jürg Röthlisbergerb. 1955CHnot in their usual nameSwiss judoka
  • Jürg Grossenb. 1969CHnot in their usual nameSwiss politician and entrepreneur

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Is Juerg a male or female name?
Juerg is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Juerg have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Juerg in Switzerland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jurg.
How common is the name Juerg?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 85 people named Jurg, about 1 in 203 thousand residents.
How common is Juerg compared with other names?
In Switzerland, Juerg is the 32nd most common given name of 38,907 given names recorded there.

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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, “Juerg” — the 32nd most common given name in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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