Harki

surname · Latin script

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

/harki:/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Harki is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Iraq than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • IQIraq≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 169K
  • SESweden1 in 268K

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.

Iraq (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,300 people, est.

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Iraq, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Harki 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 Harki is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IQ Iraq≈2,300 est.≈1 in 17K—Harki2
US United States≈40 est.≈1 in 8.4Mlisted—13
SE Sweden381 in 268K38—1
IN India≈37 est.≈1 in 36M2Harki9
FI Finland331 in 169K33——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Harki is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hãrkĩ

  • Finnish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Iraq, Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Härkì

33 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)

Harki 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 English, An Algerian Muslim who fought with the French during Algeria’s war of independence from 1954-1962; loosely, an Algerian Muslim who supported the French presence in Algeria.

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

  • In Basque, ( Urt ), hartuki ( Urt ). "Acceptum, harkija, hartukija, errezibikija, errezibitukija " Urt I 74.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

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)

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)

FormalHej ,Dear Harki, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Harki
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—38#15,598
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—33#32,131
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#624
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Harki?
A machine transcription gives /harki:/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Harki have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Harki in Iraq, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harki.
How common is the name Harki?
In Sweden, the national register counted 38 people named Harki, about 1 in 268 thousand residents.

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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, “Harki”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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