Origin of surname please!!!!!!!!?

Question

can anyone tell me what origin "khurgin" is. I think it might be german but im not sure.

Answer 1

Belarus.

Answer 2

may be german i m not sure

Answer 3

It sounds eastern european with that spelling, Lithuania, Romania, possibly one of the ":stans"

Answer 4

From various search results I have come up with anything from Yiddish, to Russian. But it is most definitely not German.

Answer 5

I'm German and it really doesn't sound German to me....souns like a Russian name.

Answer 6

KHURGIN, according to www.jewishgen.org, originated in Minsk , Russia, in the Vedomosti records (1870s-1890s) for Koidanov . Surnames similar to it are Korchan, Kurgan, Kurgon. The surname was most common in Koidanov.

www.behindthename.com:

Another similar name is Kirchner  

Usage: German

Derived from Middle High German kirche "church". The name was probably given to someone who worked at a church or lived near one

www.familysearch.org--varied spellings for KURGAN are

KERGAN; MCKERGAN ; KIRGAN; CURGAN ; KERGIN ; KURG; KURKA ;  & KURCK.

For KORCHAN--there are these spellings: KOERCH ; KORCHEN; & KORCH.

For KIRCHNER--there are these spellings: KIRSCHNER;

KERSHNER ; KARTCHNER ;& KIRCHINER .

For the spelling KIRSCHNER, the earliest listing was for

Arthur Kirschner--born 1529 in England .

All the names above were found in Germany (the majority of them), Russia, Prussia, Ireland, Canada, S. Africa, Tanzania, China, Austria, Hungary, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Mexico, Norway, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, and Sweden, and in the USA in OH, VA, MO, PA, MD, TX, MN, WI, CA, KS, IA, MI, NY, AL, AK, and AZ.

This was in a MySpace blog from 2005: "Though I was born in Belarus, then a part of the Soviet Union, my name is distinctly un-Slavic. Ever since I was a young lad, with many less teeth than I own today, I have been under the impression that my surname has ancient Turkish roots (maybe even Byzantine), and means "protector of the tribe."--Member name is Medium Thoth, on the webpage .

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