Kirke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʰɝk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kirke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. London;. see Kirk .
- USUnited States1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 204K
- DKDenmark1 in 279K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 204K (inferred from the name graph)
≈220 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. London;. see Kirk .
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kirke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Kirke | 76 |
| US United States | 172 | 1 in 1.9M | 194 | Kirke | 138 |
| AU Australia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 204K | — | Kirke | 60 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 722K | — | Kirke | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 942K | — | Kirke | 31 |
| DK Denmark | 21 | 1 in 279K | 21 | — | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 334K | — | Kirke | 13 |
| IE Ireland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Kirke | 14 |
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 2000; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- David Kirkeb. 1597FRNewfoundland colonial leader
- Percy Kirkeb. 1646BEEnglish general
- Percy Kirkeb. 1683English army officer (1683–1741)
- Walter Kirkeb. 1877GBBritish Army general
- Simon Kirkeb. 1949GBBritish drummer
- Frančeska Kirkeb. 1953LVLatvian painter and illustrator (1953-)
- Ian Kirkeb. 1981GBEnglish rugby league footballer
- Domino Kirkeb. 1983USBritish-American singer
- Jemima Kirkeb. 1985GBBritish-American artist and actress
- Lola Kirkeb. 1990USEnglish-born American actress
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 20 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 172 | #104,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 21 | #22,437 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Kirke mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): widespread: esp. London;. see Kirk . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Kirke?
- A machine transcription gives /kʰɝk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kirke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 218 people named Kirke in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kirke.
- How common is the name Kirke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 172 people named Kirke in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million 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/kirkeThe 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, “Kirke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.