Bjarke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name meaning bear or strong as a bear
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bjarke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 31K
- NONorway≈1 in 106K
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
2,705 people
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name meaning bear or strong as a bear
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bjarke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #226 | 2,705 | 1 in 2.2K | 2.7K | Bjarke | 130 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Bjarke | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 128 | Bjarke | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 38 | 1 in 268K | 38 | Bjarke | 14 |
| US United States | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Bjarke | 43 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Bjarke | 10 |
2,705 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bjarke Gundlevb. 1931Danish association football player
- Bjarke Ingelsb. 1974DKDanish architect (b.1974)
- Bjarke Nielsenb. 1976Danish bicycle racer, born 1976
- Bjarke Møllerb. 1985DKDanish ice hockey player
- Bjarke Mogensenb. 1985DKDanish accordionist
- Bjarke Schjødt Larsenb. 1985DKDanish writer
- Bjarke Bonkeb. 1990Danish cyclist
- Bjarke Jacobsenb. 1993DKDanish footballer (1993-)
- Bjarke MønstedDKresearcher
- Bjarke Bak ChristensenDKresearcher, Technical University of Denmark
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)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 2.7K | #186 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 128 | #6,587 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 38 | #16,535 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 26 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 25 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 23 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 22 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Bjarke mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name meaning bear or strong as a bear Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Bjarke a male or female name?
- Bjarke is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Bjarke?
- In the etymology graph, Björn, Bjarne and Bjarni are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Bjoern and Bjørn.
- In which country does Bjarke have the most bearers?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Bjarke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjarke.
- Where is Bjarke most common?
- Bjarke is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bjarke?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 2,705 people named Bjarke, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Bjarke compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Bjarke is the 226th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjarkeThe 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, “Bjarke” — the 226th most common given name in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.