Gurka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Hury (see George)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈɡɝkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 223K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 264K
- USUnited States1 in 530K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 223K (inferred from the name graph)
628 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Hury (see George).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gurka 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.
628 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)Gurka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Gurka Andreev syn Shemiakin. 1629.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, cucumber
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)- Jason Gurkab. 1988USAmerican baseball 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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 628 | #35,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 621 | #34,503 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 570 | #41,199 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 134 | #18,628 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 97 | #29,057 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 57 | #95,634 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 49 | #10,712 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 48 | #29,905 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 23 | #82,290 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #84,297 |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Gurka mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of Gury, a variant of Hury (see George). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gurka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɝkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gurka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 628 people named Gurka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurka.
- Where is Gurka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gurka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 223 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gurka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 628 people named Gurka in 2010, about 1 in 530 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/gurkaThe 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, “Gurka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.