Jurk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Guttural-Variation mit J-Anlaut gegenüber G-Formen; belegt 835 Träger
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/juɐk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jurk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- SCSeychelles≈1 in 30K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 467K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Seychelles, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Guttural-Variation mit J-Anlaut gegenüber G-Formen; belegt 835 Träger. Varianten der J-Reihe zu Gurk; teils wohl gleiche Herkunft wie Gurk-Formen.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jurk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Jurk | 83 |
| BR Brazil | — | 148 | 1 in 1.4M | 148 | — | — |
| US United States | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 114 | Jurk | 69 |
| ES Spain | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Jurk | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Jurk | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 18 | 1 in 467K | 18 | Jurk | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Jurk | 4 |
| SC Seychelles | #849 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Jurk | 1 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Jurk 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 German, slaw. Patronym aus Georg; zeigt G/J-Variation im Anlaut. 1787 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In Indonesian, dress
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)
- Walter Jurkb. 1904DEGerman military personnel (1904–1963)
- Thomas Jurkb. 1962DEGerman politician
- Ulrike Jurkb. 1979DEGerman volleyball player
- Sarah Jurkb. 1986DEresearcher
- Steffen JurkDr.-Ing. Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus 2005
- Diana JurkGBresearcher
- Andreas JurkDEPh.D. Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 1993
- Rick JurkUScollege basketball player (1978–1979) UC-Irvine
- Kerstin JurkDEresearcher
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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 148 | #46,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 114 | #135,837 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Jurk?
- A machine transcription gives /juɐk/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Jurk mean?
- Recorded meaning: Guttural-Variation mit J-Anlaut gegenüber G-Formen; belegt 835 Träger.
- In which country does Jurk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Jurk in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jurk.
- How common is the name Jurk?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 148 people named Jurk, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Jurk compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Jurk is the 849th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jurk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jurkThe 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, “Jurk” — the 849th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.