Bjoerk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bʃʊɛrk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bjoerk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Benin than in any other country.
- BJBenin≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden≈1 in 56K
- ESSpain1 in 5.6M
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 Bjoerk 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.
- Benin (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Benin, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bjørk in NO Norway, DK Denmark.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bjoerk 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.
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)
- Kaj Björkb. 1918SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1918–2014)
- Anita Björkb. 1923SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress (1923-2012)
- Halvar Björkb. 1928SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actor (1928-2000)
- Christina Björkb. 1938SEnot in their usual nameSwedish film director, author and journalist
- Gunnar Björkb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish banker, politician, member of the Riksdag and county governor
- Nina Björkb. 1967SEnot in their usual nameSwedish writer
- Anna Björkb. 1970SEnot in their usual nameactress
- Hera Björkb. 1972ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic singer
- Thed Björkb. 1980SEnot in their usual nameSwedish racing driver
- Carl Björkb. 1992SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer, born 1992
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 9 | #126,713 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Bjoerk?
- A machine transcription gives /bʃʊɛrk/ (IPA) for Norwegian.
- In which country does Bjoerk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Bjoerk in Benin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjoerk.
- How common is the name Bjoerk?
- In Spain, the national register counted 9 people named Bjoerk, about 1 in 5.6 million residents.
- How common is Bjoerk compared with other names?
- In Benin, Bjoerk is the 893rd most common surname of 5,339 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjoerk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjoerkThe 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, “Bjoerk” — the 893rd most common surname in Benin. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.