Clárk
surname · Latin script
Clárk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Old English clerc (“clergyman; learned man”), whence also clerk.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 450
- IEIreland≈1 in 510
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Clárk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #118 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 640 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 413 (inferred from the name graph)
562,679 people, 2010
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Clark in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more and Clarke in JM Jamaica, ZA South Africa.
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)From Old English clerc (“clergyman; learned man”), whence also clerk.
Cited for this meaning 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- A dictionary of surnames
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clárk 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 | #23 | 562,679 | 1 in 591 | 563K | Clark | 640 |
| GB United Kingdom | #8 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 453 | 9 | Clark | 373 |
| CA Canada | #12 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 557 | 23 | Clark | 301 |
| AU Australia | #9 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 523 | 3 | Clark | 298 |
| ZA South Africa | #394 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Clarke | 117 |
| NZ New Zealand | #10 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 413 | 10 | Clark | 185 |
| IE Ireland | #9 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 513 | — | Clark | 161 |
| JM Jamaica | #15 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 446 | — | Clarke | 55 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,890as Clarke | 1 in 397 | 1.9K | — | 16 |
562,679 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clárk mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old English clerc (“clergyman; learned man”), whence also clerk. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and A dictionary of surnames and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Clárk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 563 thousand people named Clárk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clark.
- How common is the name Clárk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 562,679 people named Clárk in 2010, about 1 in 591 residents.
- How common is Clárk compared with other names?
- In the United States, Clárk is the 23rd most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%A1rkThe 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, “Clárk” — the 23rd most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.