# Gurung (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gurung/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,450 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,427 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 89,491 people |
| Change since 2000 | +794% (386 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the Nepali surname, from the name of the Gurung people of Nepal, गुरुङ (guruṅ), an exonym itself possibly borrowed from Tibetan.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gurung in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 1.3% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 0.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 96% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gurung in Nepal.

## People named Gurung

- Prabal Gurung, American fashion designer (born 1979)

## Similar surnames

Grimes, Granger, Grooms, Garnica, Grimsley, Gehring, Grainger, Grams, Greenspan, Goehring, Greenstein, Grinstead.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.