Curk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Curk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
347 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Curk 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 347 | 1 in 6.1K | 347 | Curk | 4 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Curk | 12 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Curk | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | — | 2 | — | — |
347 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Curk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In yol, To squat in a sitting posture.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Franc Curkb. 1922SIresearcher
- Jože Curkb. 1924SISlovenian art historian
- Iva Curkb. 1935SISlovenian archaeologist
- Franc Curkb. 1949SISlovenian painter
- Tine CurkSIresearcher
- Boris CurkSIresearcher
- Aleš CurkSIresearcher
- Jurij CurkSIresearcher
- Barbara Čenčur CurkSIresearcher
- Miha CurkSIresearcher
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 347 | #1,065 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Curk?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Curk have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 347 people named Curk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled curk.
- Where is Curk most common?
- Curk is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Curk?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 347 people named Curk, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Curk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/curkThe 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, “Curk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.