Gorka

given name · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from a place called Gorka or Gorki (see Gorecki^

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ɣorka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Gorka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 3.7K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland≈1 in 87K
  • HRCroatia1 in 117K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

13,391 people

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Locally spelled Girka in FR France.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from a place called Gorka or Gorki (see Gorecki^

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gorka 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.

Where Gorka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain#60613,3911 in 3.7K13KGorka152
FR France—≈190 est.≈1 in 362K35Girka33
US United States—≈100 est.≈1 in 3.3M965Gorka66
VE Venezuela—≈65 est.≈1 in 440K—Gorka10
FI Finland—≈64 est.≈1 in 87K15Gorka3
HR Croatia—361 in 117K36——

13,391 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Gorka is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Górka, Gòrka

  • Croatian given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Croatia, United States, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Górka, Горка

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Spain, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Górka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Górka, Górká

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Spain

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Górka

  • Danish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Girka, Górka

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Górka

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gorka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom., baskische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Russian, dim of Gora.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Basque, a male given name, equivalent to English George or Spanish Jorge

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In dsb, superseded spelling of górka (both etymologies)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, inflection of gorak:

    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)

19601970198019902000Gorka Aguinagalde, b. 1966Gorka Verdugo, b. 1978Gorka Otxoa, b. 1979Gorka Iraizoz, b. 1981Gorka Lasaosa, b. 1982Gorka Larrea, b. 1984Gorka Izagirre, b. 1987Gorka Elustondo, b. 1987Gorka Márquez, b. 1990Gorka Guruzeta, b. 1996

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)

InformalHola Gorka,Hi Gorka, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Gorka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000965#24,328
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010951#25,865
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020926#27,561
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196142—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194141—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197122—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—20#85,282
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—20#83,413

Reference works 6

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 Gorka mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from a place called Gorka or Gorki (see Gorecki^ Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Gorka?
A machine transcription gives /ɣorka/ (IPA) for Spanish.
Is Gorka a male or female name?
Gorka 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 Gorka?
In the etymology graph, Jorge, George and Jürgen are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Gorka have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Gorka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorka.
Where is Gorka most common?
Gorka is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Gorka?
In Spain, the national register counted 13,391 people named Gorka, about 1 in 3.7 thousand residents.
How common is Gorka compared with other names?
In Spain, Gorka is the 606th most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gorka” — the 606th most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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