Kurlander: Last Name Origin and Family Crest

Kurlander is a familiar spelling of the German name Kurland. Read literally, Kurlander points to “Someone who came from Kurland or Courland (country of the Cours)”.

Family crest and blazon

Arms linked to Kurland and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

A variant of Kurland

Kurlander is built on the same root as Kurland, with the ending -er. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

About 348 people in the United States were recorded as Kurlander in 2010, placing it 58,337 on the national list. That is enough to place it in the top 100,000 American surnames. For the full story, order the Kurlander surname pack.