Mörk

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mörk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. Recorded meaning: dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light).

rarermore common
  • NONorway1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 129K
  • SESweden1 in 7.6K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

2,888 people

Sources
264 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mork in US United States, NO Norway, DE Germany 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)

dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mörk 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.

Where Mörk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway#2242,8881 in 1.9K2.9KMork71
US United States—2,5831 in 129K2.6KMork264
SE Sweden—1,3471 in 7.6K1.3KMörk34
CM Cameroon—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 25K—Mork2
DE Germany—≈320 est.≈1 in 251K—Mork55
FI Finland—1821 in 31K182Mork5
IS Iceland—≈23 est.≈1 in 16K1Mork4

2,888 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mörk is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Finnish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mork

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mõrk, Mork

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Côte d’Ivoire, Norway

    Also written Mork, Mo̸Rk

  • Russian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Морк, Mork

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Mork, Mórk

  • Turkish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Mork

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mörk 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 Icelandic, mark (a unit of weight, about 250 grams or 8 ounces)

    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)

1700180019002000Jacob Henrik Mörk, b. 1715Annie Mörk, b. 1887Hans Mörk, b. 1928Lennart Mörk, b. 1932Hans Mörk, b. 1942Peter Mörk, b. 1969Eva Mörk, b. 1971Ylva Mörk, b. 1972Matilda Mörk, b. 1976Adrien Mörk, b. 1979

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)

Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mörk
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13#31,955
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)20261—
IS IcelandMannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names———

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Mörk mean, and where does it come from?
dark (having an absolute or relative lack of light) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Mörk have the most bearers?
In Norway, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Mörk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mork.
Where is Mörk most common?
Mörk is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mörk?
In Norway, the national register counted 2,888 people named Mörk, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Mörk compared with other names?
In Norway, Mörk is the 224th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mörk” — the 224th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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