Kurakin (feminine: Kurakina) is a Russian surname associate with the Russian noble Kurakin family. The surname comes from Turkic quraq, 'empty, greedy'.Nikolai Baskakov: Русские фамилии тюркского происхождения (1979)Boris Unbegaun Русские фамилии / Под ред. Б. А. Успенского. — М.: Прогресс, 1989. — С. 293.
Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Kurakin (1752–1818), Russian statesman and diplomat Alexander Kurakin (1697) (1697–1749) statesman and diplomat Alexandra Kurakina Alexey Kurakin (1759–1829), Russian statesman Antons Kurakins (born 1990), Latvian football defender
Elena Kurakina Elizaveta Kurakina Naryshkina Julia Kurakina Juri Kurakin (born 1987), Estonian ice dancer, brother of Dmitri Kurakin Igor Kurakin (born 1963), Russian football player Natalia Kurakina (1766-1831), Russian composer, singer and noblewoman Pavel Kurakin (born 1966), Russian footballer
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