Buerker
surname · Latin script
Buerker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Falkland Islands (Malvinas) it is the 12th most common surname.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1Mas Burker(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.3M
- FKFalkland Islands (Malvinas)≈1 in 1Kas Burker
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 Buerker 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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 named Burker, est.
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Burker in US United States, FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas), AT Austria and 3 more and Bürker in DE Germany.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Buerker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Burker | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 698K | — | Burker | 1 |
| US United States | — | 294as Burker | 1 in 1.1M | 364 | Burker | 127 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 468K | — | Bürker | 28 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Burker | 4 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 519K | — | Burker | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 7.3M | — | Buerker | 1 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 384K | 1 | — | — |
| FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | #12 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Burker | 1 |
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 2020; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Buerker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 473 people named Burker in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Buerker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 294 people named Burker in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Buerker compared with other names?
- In Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Buerker is the 12th most common surname of 405 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Buerker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/buerkerThe 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, “Buerker” — the 12th most common surname in Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.