Stärk
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
Stärk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 41,735 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): central Scotland:. nickname from Middle English stark ‘strong, sturdy; harsh, severe’ (Old English stearc). Stärk is also written สตาร์ค in Thai and 스타크 in Korean (Hangul).
- SESweden1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.3K
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Stärk itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
41,735 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Stärk in other scripts: Thai and Korean (Hangul)
(measured from records)Locally spelled Stark in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 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).
Cited for this meaning 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 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Stärk is found
(measured from records)Stärk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #651 | 41,735 | 1 in 8K | 42K | Stark | 496 |
| DE Germany | #139 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Stark | 204 |
| GB United Kingdom | #850 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 3.9K | Stark | 212 |
| CA Canada | #595 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 1 | Stark | 184 |
| AU Australia | #707 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Stark | 164 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,173 | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | Stark | 64 |
| AT Austria | #256 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Stark | 84 |
| FI Finland | — | 953 | 1 in 5.8K | 953 | — | 22 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Stärk 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.
In Swedish, imperative of stärka
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)- Otto-Julius Stärkb. 1913DEGerman zoologist
- Klaus Stärkb. 1954DEGerman football manager
- Ekkehard Stärkb. 1958DEGerman classical philologist (1958–2001)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Stärk 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Stärk?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Stärk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stark. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Stärk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stärk 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 Stärk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,735 people named Stärk in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Stärk compared with other names?
- In the United States, Stärk is the 651st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/st%C3%A4rkThe 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, “Stärk” — ranked 751st in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.