Stårk

surname · Latin script

Stårk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): central Scotland:. nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 5.8K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 6.8K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

41,735 people, 2010

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Stark in US United States, SE Sweden, CH Switzerland and 1 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): central Scotland:. nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc).

Sources 7

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stårk 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 Stårk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States41,7351 in 8K42KStark40
SE Sweden3,1731 in 3.2K3.2KStark18
CH Switzerland1,2371 in 6.8K1.2KStark3
FI Finland9531 in 5.8K953Stark16
PL Poland7291 in 53K392——
NO Norway2381 in 23K238—2

41,735 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Stårk under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Stårk mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): central Scotland:. nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc). Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
In which country does Stårk have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Stårk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stark.
Where is Stårk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stårk is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Stårk?
In the United States, the national register counted 41,735 people named Stårk in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Stårk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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