Kushnir
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a furrier, Ukrainian kushnir, a word of German origin (see Kurschner)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkəʃnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kushnir is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.4Kas Кушнір(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 13Kas Кушнир
- PLPoland1 in 11K
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 Kushnir 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 152 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈30,000 named Кушнір, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кушнир in RU Russia, IL Israel, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Кушнір in UA Ukraine.
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)
occupational name for a furrier, Ukrainian kushnir, a word of German origin (see Kurschner).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kushnir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #52 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Кушнір | 83 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Кушнир | 152 |
| CN China | — | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Кушнир | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,369 | 1 in 11K | 1.8K | Kushnir | 28 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Кушнир | 3 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Кушнир | 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alla Kushnirb. 1941ILRussian-Israeli chess player (1941–2013)
- Boris Kuschnirb. 1948UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian violinist
- Asher Kushnirb. 1956ILIsraeli rabbi
- Avi Kushnirb. 1960ILcomedian, actor, host
- Vardan Kushnirb. 1969RUmurdered spammer (1969-2005)
- Alex Kushnirb. 1978ILIsraeli politician
- Pavel Kushnirb. 1984RURussian musician and dissident (1984–2024)
- Anton Kushnirb. 1984BYBelarusian freestyle skier
- Alla Kushnirb. 1985UAUkrainian belly dancer
- Etapp Kyleb. 1987UAnot in their usual namemusician
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,603 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,738 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Kushnir mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a furrier, Ukrainian kushnir, a word of German origin (see Kurschner). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kushnir?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkəʃnɝ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kushnir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Кушнір in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kushnir most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kushnir is densest in Poland — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kushnir?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,369 people named Kushnir in 2026, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Kushnir compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kushnir is the 52nd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kushnirThe 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, “Kushnir” — the 52nd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.