Mørk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mørk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country. In Danish, recorded as dark (without light).
- DKDenmark1 in 4.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2K
- SESweden1 in 2.6M
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)
- Sources
- 57 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,800 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Moerk in US United States, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom.
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 (without light)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mørk is read(measured from records)
Mørk is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish63%
dark (without light)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Norwegian5.3%
dark
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mørk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 2,800 | 1 in 2K | 2.8K | Mørk | 27 |
| DK Denmark | #361 | 1,372 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.4K | Mørk | 57 |
| SE Sweden | — | 4 | 1 in 2.6M | 4 | Moerk | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 148M | listed | Moerk | 22 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 35M | — | Moerk | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
2,800 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Mørk 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 Faroese, half pound (250 g)
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)
- Petter Mørkb. 1921NONorwegian writer (1921–1979)
- Ole Mørkb. 1948DKDanish footballer
- Marianne Mørkb. 1953NONorwegian writer, actor, singer, film director
- Kari Mørkb. 1955NONorwegian author
- Hans Olav Mørkb. 1956NONorwegian priest, musician, lyricist
- Truls Mørkb. 1961NONorwegian cellist
- Christian Mørkb. 1966USAmerican journalist
- Jon Endre Mørkb. 1967NONorwegian film editor
- Nora Mørkb. 1991NONorwegian handball player
- Thea Mørkb. 1991NONorwegian handball player
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #67,181 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Mørk mean, and where does it come from?
- dark (without light) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mørk have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Mørk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mørk.
- Where is Mørk most common?
- Mørk is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mørk?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,800 people named Mørk, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mørk compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Mørk is the 361st most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mørk?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B8rkThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mørk” — the 361st most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.