Sarkér
surname · Latin script
Sarkér is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bengali সরকার (śorkar).
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 318(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 6.6K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 41K
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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 318 (inferred from the name graph)
≈510,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 Sarker in BD Bangladesh, US United States, MY Malaysia and 5 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 Bengali সরকার (śorkar).
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sarkér 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #23 | ≈510,000 est. | ≈1 in 318 | — | Sarker | 132 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Sarker | 22 |
| SG Singapore | #470 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Sarker | 21 |
| US United States | — | 834 | 1 in 399K | 1.6K | Sarker | 192 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Sarker | 20 |
| OM Oman | #819 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Sarker | 8 |
| BH Bahrain | #312 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Sarker | 6 |
| QA Qatar | #564 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Sarker | 13 |
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. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarkér mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bengali সরকার (śorkar). Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Sarkér have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 511 thousand people named Sarkér in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sarker.
- How common is the name Sarkér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 834 people named Sarkér in 2010, about 1 in 399 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarkér compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Sarkér is the 23rd most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sark%C3%A9rThe 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, “Sarkér” — the 23rd most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.