Björk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a habitational surname, from björk (“birch”) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/ˈbjœ̞rk/(recorded in a dictionary) Swedish · from Wiktionary
Björk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 13,390 people, counted by Skatteverket, which ranks it 49th. Björk is also written 비요크 in Korean (Hangul).
- SESweden1 in 762(measured from records)
- ISIceland≈1 in 1.6Kfew records
- 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). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 308 (measured from records)
- 1 in 762 (inferred from the name graph)
13,390 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Björk in other scripts: Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bjork in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AG Antigua & Barbuda.
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.
How to pronounce Björk
- Swedish:/ˈbjœ̞rk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a habitational surname, from björk (“birch”)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Björk is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #56 | 13,390 | 1 in 762 | 13K | Björk | 70 |
| US United States | — | 3,317 | 1 in 100K | 3.3K | Bjork | 308 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,387 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.4K | Björk | 16 |
| BJ Benin | #327 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Björk | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Bjork | 63 |
| IS Iceland | #34 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 346 | Björk | 43 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #298 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Bjork | 1 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Kaj Björkb. 1918SESwedish politician (1918–2014)
- Christina Björkb. 1938SESwedish film director, author and journalist
- Hera Björkb. 1972ISIcelandic singer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
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).
- What are other forms of the name Björk?
- In the etymology graph, Birke is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Björk?
- In Swedish /ˈbjœ̞rk/ (Wiktionary).
- 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Björk?
- 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. After it come United States, Finland, Benin and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Björk most common?
- Björk is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 762 people carrying it.
What do you want to know about Björk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bj%C3%B6rkThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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” — ranked 49th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.