Märke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Märke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Mark .
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- SLSierra Leone≈1 in 42K
- NONorway1 in 119K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sierra Leone, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Marke in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 2 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)
Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Mark .
Sources 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- A Frequency Dictionary of German
- Nordic Names
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Märke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Marke | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Marke | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Marke | 54 |
| US United States | 325 | 1 in 1M | 408 | Marke | 164 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 361K | — | Marke | 65 |
| SL Sierra Leone | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 42K | 1 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | 46 | 1 in 119K | 46 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 29 | 1 in 202K | 29 | — | — |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables. 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)
Märke is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, partitive plural of märk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a mark
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
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 Märke mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Somerset. see Mark . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and A Frequency Dictionary of German and 1 other source.
- In which country does Märke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Märke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marke.
- How common is the name Märke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Märke in 2010, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Märke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A4rkeThe 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, “Märke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.