Strack
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a nickname for being straight, stiff, or lean
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɹæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Strack is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6Kas Stark(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.4Kas Stark
- CACanada≈1 in 6.9Kas Stark
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 Strack 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
41,735 named Stark, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Stark in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 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)
from a nickname for being straight, stiff, or lean
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Strack 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 | 41,735as Stark | 1 in 8K | 42K | Stark | 496 |
| DE Germany | #139 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Stark | 204 |
| GB United Kingdom | #850 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 3.9K | Stark | 212 |
| CA Canada | #595 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 1 | Stark | 184 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Stark | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,173as Stark | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | Stark | 64 |
| AT Austria | #256 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Stark | 84 |
| CH Switzerland | #923 | 1,237as Stark | 1 in 6.8K | 1.2K | Stark | 50 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,157 | 1 in 183K | 1.2K | — | 52 |
| FI Finland | — | 953as Stark | 1 in 5.8K | 953 | — | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 843 | 1 in 54K | 843 | — | 32 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
Strack is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, straight, taut
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Übername für eine große/aufrechte oder straffe Person; zu mhd./mnd. strack 'gerade, straff, ausgestreckt'. Bearer count: 2219.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Personenname nach persönlichem Merkmal: zu mhd./nhd. strack „gerade, stramm, aufrecht“; Bärenzahl 2219.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Nachname aus persönlichem Merkmal: straff, schlank oder steif gebaut.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, mhd. strac "straff, gerade". Strack [ bein, erja(h)n, Strakeljahn ("Johann"). Altd. N.bil- dung zeigt: Strackhardt. Stracke(r): s. Straka
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Heinrich Strackb. 1805DEGerman architect (1805–1880)
- Hermann Leberecht Strackb. 1848DEGerman theologian (1848–1922)
- Otto Strackb. 1857DEGerman architect, active in the United States
- Gerhard Strackb. 1911DEGerman politician (1911-1977)
- Günter Strackb. 1929DEGerman actor (1929–1999)
- Peter Burghard Strackb. 1940DEGerman architect
- Fritz Strackb. 1950DEGerman social psychologist
- Gerhard Strackb. 1955DEGerman football player (1955-2020)
- Adriano Strackb. 1992BRBrazilian association football player
- Dieter StrackDEbasketball player
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,036 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,744 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,223 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.2K | #8,098 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 843 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 48 | #52,114 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 46 | #19,892 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #64,304 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Strack mean, and where does it come from?
- from a nickname for being straight, stiff, or lean Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Strack?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɹæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Strack have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Stark, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Strack most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Strack is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Strack?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,157 people named Strack, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.
- How common is Strack compared with other names?
- In the United States, Strack 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/strackThe 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, “Strack” — the 651st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.