Kirik

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 15Kas Кирик(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 90Kas Кирик
  • SESweden1 in 162K

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 Kirik 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,800 named Кирик, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 162K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

КирикCyrillic(measured from records)
KyrykLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Кирик in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus and 1 more and Kyryk in US United States, PL Poland.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kirik 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 Kirik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈2,800 est.≈1 in 15K—Кирик36
RU Russia≈1,600 est.≈1 in 90K—Кирик114
TW Taiwan≈400 est.≈1 in 60K—Кирик1
BY Belarus≈350 est.≈1 in 27K—Кирик15
PL Poland289as Kyryk1 in 132K151Kyryk4
US United States2211 in 1.5M226Kyryk28
SE Sweden631 in 162K63——

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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)

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

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Türkiye

    Also written Kïrik, Kīrīk

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Kìrîk

36 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)

Kirik is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "messenger."

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

  • In yka, to tickle someone (especially at a side of his or her body)

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

  • In Indonesian, aphetic form of mengirik

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

  • In Malay, puppy (young dog)

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

  • In poz-cet-pro, to tickle

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Estonian, church

    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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalSayın Kirik,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Kirik,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Kirik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020226#88,273
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010221#84,748
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000205#84,968
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—63#10,468
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202618—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—18#95,500
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#127,148
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Kirik?
A machine transcription gives /ciɾic/ (IPA) for Turkish.
In which country does Kirik have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Кирик in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kirik most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kirik is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 162 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kirik?
In the United States, the national register counted 221 people named Kirik in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million 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, “Kirik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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