Birkner
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Birkner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname: from birke 'birch'; 1658 Tokens.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 221K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 340K
- SESweden1 in 340K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 221K (inferred from the name graph)
682 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Toponymic surname: from birke 'birch'; 1658 Tokens. Variant spellings reflect stem-vowel and suffix variation.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Birkner counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 682 | 1 in 488K | 686 | Birkner | 34 |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | Birkner | 22 |
| PL Poland | 62 | 1 in 617K | 33 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 38 | 1 in 221K | 38 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 30 | 1 in 340K | 30 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 29 | 1 in 369K | 29 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 15 | 1 in 340K | 15 | Birkner | 3 |
682 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Birkner is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a dwelling/landscape name with birch/bush growth (Wohnstätte: Baum- und Buschbestand). Bearer count: 1658.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
In German, Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name; variant cluster includes Berker, Bercker, Pirker, Berkner.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wolfgang Birknerb. 1960DEGerman rower
- Magdalena Birknerb. 1966ARArgentine alpine skier
- Nicola Birknerb. 1969DEGerman yacht racer
- Carolina Birknerb. 1971ARArgentine alpine skier
- Stefan Birknerb. 1973DEGerman politician
- Cristian Javier Simari Birknerb. 1980ARalpine skier from Argentina
- María Belén Simari Birknerb. 1982ARArgentine alpine skier
- Macarena Simari Birknerb. 1984ARArgentine alpine skier
- Jorge Birkner Ketelhohnb. 1990ARArgentine alpine skier
- Bautista Saubidet Birknerb. 1995ARArgentine windsurfer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Birkner come from?
- Toponymic surname: from birke 'birch'; 1658 Tokens. Variant spellings reflect stem-vowel and suffix variation. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- What does the name Birkner mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname: from birke 'birch'; 1658 Tokens.
- In which country does Birkner have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 682 people named Birkner, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled birkner.
- Where is Birkner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Birkner is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 221 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Birkner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 682 people named Birkner in 2010, about 1 in 488 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Birkner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.