Barku
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Barku is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Acarya Barku Varsna (V).
- INIndia1 in 1.7Kas Barik(measured from records)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 31Kas Barik
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 31Kas Barik
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 Barku 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
770,627 named Barik
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India, as Barik
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Barik in IN India, BD Bangladesh, ID Indonesia 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)
Acarya Barku Varsna (V)
Sources 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barku 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #214 | 770,627as Barik | 1 in 1.7K | 771K | Barik | 164 |
| BD Bangladesh | #538 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Barik | 30 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Barik | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 188K | — | Barik | 45 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Barik | 21 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Barik | 14 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Barik | 4 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Barik | 3 |
770,627 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Barku is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, genitive/locative/vocative singular of bark
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In pap, ship, boat
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kuperskrīkas upes (Austrālijas vidienē) augšteces senāk lietots nosaukums
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 7 | #2,814 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Barku mean, and where does it come from?
- Acarya Barku Varsna (V) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- Is Barku a male or female name?
- Barku is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Barku have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 771 thousand people named Barik, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Barku most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Barku itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is India's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people named Barik.
- How common is the name Barku?
- In India, the national register counted 770,627 people named Barik, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Barku compared with other names?
- In India, Barku is the 214th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Barku?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barkuThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Barku” — the 214th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.