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    The surname Kuhr

    A German surname, carried by 1,102 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K600

    Kuhr: #23,153 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kuhr #23,153, 1,102 people Kuhr: #23,153 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kuhr #23,153, 1,102 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kuhr is more common than 85.7% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    From German Kuhr.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,102 people named Kuhr in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 280,168 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,106.

    #23,153
    rank among US surnames
    1,102
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    -0.4%
    change since 2000 (was #21,892)

    Who is named Kuhr

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

    94% of people named Kuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as two or more races and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 94%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
    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 Kuhr

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

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kuhr come from?
    From German Kuhr.
    How common is the surname Kuhr?
    1,102 people in the United States had the surname Kuhr in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 280,168 Americans. It ranked 23,153rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kuhr?
    In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kuhr identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as two or more races.
    Is the surname Kuhr getting more or less common?
    Less common. 1,106 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,102 in 2010, down 0.4%.