Mork
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish m0rk, Swedish mork ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y))
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɔɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mork is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 129K
- SESweden1 in 7.6K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 264 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
2,888 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mörk in SE Sweden.
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)
nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish m0rk, Swedish mork ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y)).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mork 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #224 | 2,888 | 1 in 1.9K | 2.9K | Mork | 71 |
| US United States | — | 2,583 | 1 in 129K | 2.6K | Mork | 264 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,347 | 1 in 7.6K | 1.3K | Mörk | 34 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Mork | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Mork | 55 |
| FI Finland | — | 182 | 1 in 31K | 182 | Mork | 5 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Mork | 4 |
2,888 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mork is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name from any of about 20 farmsteads so named, from Old Norse mgrk ‘wood’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Rasmus Morkb. 1896NONorwegian economist and administrator
- Torbjørn Morkb. 1928NONorwegian civil servant (1928–1992)
- Ingolf Morkb. 1947NONorwegian ski jumper (1947–2012)
- Kjell Morkb. 1948NONorwegian politician
- Mok Soo-jeongb. 1970KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Ian Morkb. 1971USAmerican association football manager and association football player
- Thomas Morkb. 1978NONorwegian footballer
- Mok Jin-seokb. 1980KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean go player
- Evelyn Mokb. 1987SEnot in their usual nameSwedish comedian
- Anniken Morkb. 1991NONorwegian ski jumper
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Mork mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish m0rk, Swedish mork ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y)). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mork?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mork have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Mork, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mork.
- Where is Mork most common?
- Mork is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mork?
- In Norway, the national register counted 2,888 people named Mork, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Mork compared with other names?
- In Norway, Mork is the 224th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morkThe 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, “Mork” — the 224th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.