Korku
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fear, horror, scare, dread, trepidation
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/koɾku/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Korku is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 20Kas Cork(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 56Kas Korak
- PLPoland1 in 94Kas Kurak
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 Korku itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
2,677 named Cork, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Crock in US United States and Koruk in TR Türkiye.
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)fear, horror, scare, dread, trepidation
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Korku 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 | 2,677as Cork | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Crock | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Koruk | 3 |
| PL Poland | 408as Kurak | 1 in 94K | 207 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 75as Korak | 1 in 56K | 75 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 73as Kurk | 1 in 237K | 73 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 5as Cork | 1 in 20K | 5 | — | — |
2,677 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling cork. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Korku 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.
In English, A Munda people of Madhya Pradesh, India.
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #351,118 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Korku mean, and where does it come from?
- fear, horror, scare, dread, trepidation Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Korku?
- In Turkish /koɾku/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Korku have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Cork, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Korku?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,677 people named Cork in 2010, about 1 in 124 thousand 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/korkuThe 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, “Korku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.