Tark
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/tɑɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tark is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 55K
- LYLibya≈1 in 21K
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Libya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tark 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Tark | 29 |
| SY Syria | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Tark | 11 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Tark | 7 |
| LY Libya | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Tark | 4 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Tark | 19 |
| KW Kuwait | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Tark | 6 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 6 |
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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tark is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Lithuanian, second-person singular imperative of tarti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, smart, knowledgeable, wise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vep, clever, intelligent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Uzbek, leaving
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)- Heiki Tarkb. 1952EEEstonian musician (1952-2014)
- Aare Tarkb. 1959EEEstonian lawyer (born 1959)
- Mariliis Tark-DameEEEstonian researcher
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #29,811 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Tark?
- A machine transcription gives /tɑɹk/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Tark a male or female name?
- Tark is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tark have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Tark in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tark.
- How common is the name Tark?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 14 people named Tark, about 1 in 729 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tark?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tarkThe 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, “Tark”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.