Björk

surname · Latin script

Meaning: a habitational surname, from björk (“birch”)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Björk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 762(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 100K
  • FIFinland1 in 2.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

13,390 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
308 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 762 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BjörkLatin(measured from records)
비요크Hangul(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bjork in US United States, CN China, KP North Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a habitational surname, from björk (“birch”)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Björk 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.

Where Björk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#5613,3901 in 76213KBjörk70
CN China—≈12,000 est.≈1 in 121K—Bjork4
US United States—3,3171 in 100K3.3KBjork308
FI Finland—2,3871 in 2.3K2.4KBjörk16
KP North Korea—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 12K—Bjork1
BJ Benin#327≈1,400 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Björk4
IS Iceland#34≈21 est.≈1 in 17K346Björk43

13,390 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Björk is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bjork

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Argentina, Guatemala

    Also written Bjork

  • Khmer surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Also written Bjork

  • Thai surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, Sweden, United States

    Also written Bjork, Bjoerk, บียอร์ค, Biyok, บยอร์ค

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Kaj Björk, b. 1918Anita Björk, b. 1923Halvar Björk, b. 1928Christina Björk, b. 1938Gunnar Björk, b. 1944Nina Björk, b. 1967Anna Björk, b. 1970Hera Björk, b. 1972Thed Björk, b. 1980Carl Björk, b. 1992

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 22 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Björk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13K#49
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.4K#839
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—936—

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Björk mean, and where does it come from?
a habitational surname, from björk (“birch”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Björk?
In Sweden, the national register counted 13,390 people named Björk, about 1 in 762 residents.
How common is Björk compared with other names?
In Sweden, Björk is the 56th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What are other forms of the name Björk?
In the etymology graph, Birke is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Björk have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Björk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled björk.
Where is Björk most common?
Björk is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 762 people carrying it.

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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, “Björk” — the 56th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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