Kolker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a lime burner, a variant of Kalker (see Kalk, Kalkbrenner)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kolker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 465K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 110K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 148K
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 Kolker 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 217 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 110K (inferred from the name graph)
716 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Koelker in IT Italy, AT Austria, VA Vatican City and Kölker in DE Germany.
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)
occupational name for a lime burner, a variant of Kalker (see Kalk, Kalkbrenner).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kolker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 716 | 1 in 465K | 717 | Kolker | 217 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Kolker | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 203K | — | Kölker | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 517K | — | Kolker | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 625K | — | Koelker | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 97 | 1 in 178K | 97 | Kolker | 22 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Koelker | 5 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Kolker | 6 |
| VA Vatican City | #620 | — | — | — | Koelker | 3 |
716 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Kolker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
habitational name for someone from a place called KoUd in Ukraine.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Hugo Kolkerb. 1845PLGerman-Jewish industrialist and art collector (1845-1915)
- Henry Kolkerb. 1870USAmerican actor and film director (1870-1947)
- Elsa Kolkerb. 1878DEGerman Jewish art collector
- Alexander Kolkerb. 1933RUSoviet composer (1933–2023)
- Boris Kolkerb. 1939USlanguage teacher, translator
- Dmitri Kolkerb. 1968RUdoctor of physics and mathematics at Novosibirsk State University, Russia
- Sabrina Kolkerb. 1980CACanadian rower
- Ava Kolkerb. 2006USAmerican actress
- Lexy Kolkerb. 2009USAmerican actress (born 2009)
- Robert KolkerUSAmerican journalist
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 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 717 | #34,101 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 716 | #32,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 701 | #31,271 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 97 | #19,570 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 Kolker mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a lime burner, a variant of Kalker (see Kalk, Kalkbrenner). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kolker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kolker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 716 people named Kolker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kolker.
- How common is the name Kolker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 716 people named Kolker in 2010, about 1 in 465 thousand residents.
- How common is Kolker compared with other names?
- In Vatican City, Kolker is the 620th most common surname of 1,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kolkerThe 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, “Kolker” — the 620th most common surname in Vatican City. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.