Stærk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: strong
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stærk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 19K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 41K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8Mas Staerk
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stærk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
317 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Staerk in CH Switzerland, US United States.
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)
strong
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stærk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | 317 | 1 in 19K | 317 | Stærk | 35 |
| NO Norway | 134 | 1 in 41K | 134 | Stærk | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 3as Staerk | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | Staerk | 4 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Staerk | 4 |
| FR France | — | — | 2 | — | — |
317 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lars Stærkb. 1902NONorwegian Sami writer
- Bjørn Stærkb. 1978NONorwegian writer
- Helge Grande Stærkb. 1981NONorwegian skeelton racer
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 317 | #1,466 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 134 | #11,673 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Stærk mean, and where does it come from?
- strong Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Stærk have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 317 people named Stærk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stærk.
- Where is Stærk most common?
- Stærk is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 19 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Stærk?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 317 people named Stærk, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Stærk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%A6rkThe 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, “Stærk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.