Goerke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal name Georg (see George)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɔɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goerke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 511K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 161K
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 Goerke 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gorke in AT Austria.
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)
1. from a pet form of the personal name Georg (see George). 2. possibly a habitational name from any of several places in Pomerania so called, from Slavic gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goerke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Goerke | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Goerke | 109 |
| US United States | 651 | 1 in 511K | 691 | Goerke | 179 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 672K | — | Goerke | 14 |
| PL Poland | 93 | 1 in 412K | 51 | Goerke | 2 |
| HN Honduras | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Goerke | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Gorke | 15 |
| UY Uruguay | 22as Gorke | 1 in 154K | 22 | — | 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Franz Goerkeb. 1856DEGerman photographer
- Hermann Goerkeb. 1868DEGerman architect
- Else Cohnb. 1875PLnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1875-06-03
- Else Goerkeb. 1881PLHolocaust victim, b. 1881-07-18
- Oscar Goerkeb. 1883USAmerican racing cyclist (1883-1934)
- Heinz Goerkeb. 1917DEGerman physician (1917-2014)
- Christiane Goerkeb. 1964DEGerman biologist
- Laszlo Goerkeb. 1965DEGerman economist
- Christine Goerkeb. 1969USsinger
- Antonia Goerkeb. 2005DEGerman association football player
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 691 | #31,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 651 | #34,707 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 647 | #37,075 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #49,433 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #55,850 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Goerke come from?
- 1. from a pet form of the personal name Georg (see George). 2. possibly a habitational name from any of several places in Pomerania so called, from Slavic gora ‘mountain’, ‘hill’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goerke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɔɹk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Goerke mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from a pet form of the personal name Georg (see George).
- In which country does Goerke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.9 thousand people named Goerke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goerke.
- How common is the name Goerke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 651 people named Goerke in 2010, about 1 in 511 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goerkeThe 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, “Goerke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.