Laerke
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Laerke is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 541as Lærke(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 176Kas Lærke
- ISIceland1 in 351Kas Lærke
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 Laerke 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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20M (inferred from the name graph)
10,850 named Lærke
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Laerke in other scripts: Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lærke in DK Denmark, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Laerke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #315 | 10,850as Lærke | 1 in 541 | 11K | Lærke | 74 |
| SE Sweden | — | 58as Lærke | 1 in 176K | 58 | Lærke | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 158K | 420 | Lærke | 7 |
| US United States | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 60M | — | Lærke | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Lærke | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 2as Lærke | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 1as Lærke | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
10,850 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Laerke a male or female name?
- Laerke is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Laerke?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Lærke, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Sweden, Norway, United States and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Laerke?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 10,850 people named Lærke, about 1 in 541 residents.
- How common is Laerke compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Laerke is the 315th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Laerke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/laerkeThe 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, “Laerke” — ranked 27th in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.