Märka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Märka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: the mind; eclipse; the.
- HRCroatia1 in 184K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- INIndia≈1 in 400K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 184K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mark-A in US United States.
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)the mind; eclipse; the
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
- The book of African names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Märka 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 401K | 133 | — | 15 |
| US United States | 351 | 1 in 948K | 323 | Mark-A | 146 |
| HR Croatia | 23 | 1 in 184K | 23 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 20 | 1 in 864K | 20 | — | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| XK Kosovo | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 609K | 1 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)Märka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, to notice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Veiko Märkab. 1964EEEstonian writer, journalist and humorist (born 1964)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Märka mean, and where does it come from?
- the mind; eclipse; the Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys and Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people named Märka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Märka in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Croatia, Netherlands and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Märka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Märka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 184 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Märka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Märka in 2020, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Märka?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rkaThe 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, “Märka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.