Mörike
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from MOR
Mörike is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 720Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 25Mfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 790Kfew recordsas Moerike
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mörike 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 567K (inferred from the name graph)
≈120 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, 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 Moerike in US United States, CA Canada and Morike in NG Nigeria, KE Kenya.
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)from MOR
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mörike is found
(measured from records)Mörike 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 723K | Mörike | 24 |
| KE Kenya | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 567K | Morike | 8 |
| CA Canada | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 792K | Moerike | 30 |
| US United States | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 6.7M | Moerike | 38 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 25M | Morike | 16 |
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.
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)- Charlotte Mörikeb. 1771DEWürttemberg pastor's daughter, doctor's wife and mother of Eduard Mörike (1771-1841)
- Eduard Mörikeb. 1804DEGerman poet (1804–1875)
- Eduard Mörikeb. 1877DEGerman composer and pianist (1877–1929)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mörike mean, and where does it come from?
- from MOR Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mörike?
- Mondonomo estimates about 116 people named Mörike in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mörike. After it come Kenya, Canada, United States and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Mörike?
- Mondonomo estimates about 120 people in Germany have Mörike as their first surname, about 1 in 723 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%B6rikeThe 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, “Mörike”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.