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The Kull surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 2,701 people carried this name — #11,614 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 108,700 people counted. That is up 13% from 2,396 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Kull surname

Shortened from Kullmann.

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Kull» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

760 people named Kull live in Switzerland.

They live in 19 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 216
Aargau 171
Bern 90
St. Gallen 39
Vaud 35
Thurgau 32
Basel-Landschaft 27
Schaffhausen 24

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 125 people named Kull live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Misiones 125

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 55 people named Kull.

3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often Moselle.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they were born

Born outside France 3
Moselle 46
Paris 4
Bas-Rhin 2

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In the Nordic population registers

557 people named Kull are counted in Sweden and Finland.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 502
Finland (2026) 55

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Kull in American newspapers,
1909–1922.

Newspaper page from The Grenada Sentinel carrying the name Kull
The Grenada Sentinel 1909-03-26
Newspaper page from The Times Dispatch carrying the name Kull
The Times Dispatch 1913-04-26
Newspaper page from Little Falls Herald carrying the name Kull
Little Falls Herald 1922-04-07

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 68,235 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Kull,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Edwin Kull
    Edwin Kull 1855–1941 · politician
  • Günter Kull d. 2005 · cleric
  • Christian Kull 1765–1815 · organist
  • Hans Jakob Kull 1796–1846 · engraver
  • Conrad Kull 1816–1897 · artist
  • Jacob Kull 1818–1880 · artist

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Kull.

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