Kärk
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kärk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Kark, variant of Kirch.
- INIndia1 in 83K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 204K
- FIFinland1 in 223K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
15,928 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kark in IN India, US United States, EE Estonia and 3 more.
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)Borrowed from German Kark, variant of Kirch.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kärk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 15,928 | 1 in 83K | 16K | Kark | 14 |
| US United States | 254 | 1 in 1.3M | 270 | Kark | 16 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 272K | — | Kark | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 21K | 33 | Kark | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 50 | 1 in 204K | 50 | Kark | 2 |
| FI Finland | 25 | 1 in 223K | 25 | Kark | 1 |
15,928 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; the ee-stat-nimed register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Vladimir Kärkb. 1896EEEstonian physician (1896–1943)
- Vladimir Kärkb. 1915EEEstonian basketball player (1915-1998)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 33 | #3,212 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 25 | #4,306 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kärk mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Kark, variant of Kirch. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kärk have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 16 thousand people named Kärk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kark.
- How common is the name Kärk?
- In India, the national register counted 15,928 people named Kärk, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C3%A4rkThe 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, “Kärk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.