Skip to content
Name Lineage

    The surname Kor

    An occupational surname, carried by 557 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K600

    Kor: #39,486 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kor #39,486, 557 people Kor: #39,486 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kor #39,486, 557 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kor is more common than 75.7% of them.

    Origin

    * As a Scottish surname, variant of Caw, shortened from McCaw. * As a German surname, possibly altered from Kohr, from a short form of Konrad, or from Kur, occupational surname from Middle High German kur (“official inspector”) (see modern Kurier (“messenger, courier”)). * As a Dutch surname, from Gronings dialect kor (“wheelbarrow, hand-truck”). * As a Polish surname, possibly a variant of several places derived from góra (“mountain”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 高 (gāo) (see Gao) or 高 (gāo) (see Xu).

    Kor is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 557 people named Kor in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. That is up 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 483.

    #39,486
    rank among US surnames
    557
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +15.3%
    change since 2000 (was #42,289)

    Who is named Kor

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    66% of people named Kor identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 4.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 66%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 24%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.5%
    • Two or more races 3.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kor

    Kor has the Soundex code K600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K600.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kor come from?
    * As a Scottish surname, variant of Caw, shortened from McCaw. * As a German surname, possibly altered from Kohr, from a short form of Konrad, or from Kur, occupational surname from Middle High German kur (“official inspector”) (see modern Kurier (“messenger, courier”)). * As a Dutch surname, from…
    How common is the surname Kor?
    557 people in the United States had the surname Kor in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 554,301 Americans. It ranked 39,486th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kor?
    In the 2010 Census, 66% of people named Kor identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    What type of surname is Kor?
    Kor is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Kor getting more or less common?
    More common. 483 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 557 in 2010, up 15%.