Morken

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Murchain ‘descendant of Murchdn’, a diminutive of the personal name Murchadh (see Murphy) (Dictionary of American Family Names)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025

/mʊrkɛn/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated

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Morken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 1,874 people, counted by SSB.

  • NONorway1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 408K
  • USUnited States1 in 430K

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.

Norway (measured from records)

1,874 people

Record sources
194 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Morken

  • Norwegian:/mʊrkɛn/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Murchain ‘descendant of Murchdn’, a diminutive of the personal name Murchadh (see Murphy).

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where the surname Morken is found

(measured from records)

Morken 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 Morken is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NO Norway—1,8741 in 2.9K1.9KMorken28
US United States—7741 in 430K774Morken194
GB United Kingdom—≈140 est.≈1 in 506K—Morken11
CA Canada—≈85 est.≈1 in 483K—Morken27
PH Philippines—≈84 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Morken1
SE Sweden—251 in 408K25—4
BM Bermuda#355≈5 est.≈1 in 13K—Morken1
AG Antigua & Barbuda—≈1 est.≈1 in 84K—Morken1

1,874 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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)

Morken is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Моркен

33 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)

Morken is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian, habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named, from the definite form of Old Norse mqrk ‘wood’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, rotting, half rotten, weakened by rot (especially of wood or similar materials)

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

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, decayed, decaying, rotting

    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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
194019601980Sverre Morken, b. 1945Johannes Morken, b. 1959John Ole Morken, b. 1979

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)
FormalDear Morken,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Morken mean, and where does it come from?
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Murchain ‘descendant of Murchdn’, a diminutive of the personal name Murchadh (see Murphy). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Morken?
In Norwegian /mʊrkɛn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Morken?
In Norway, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Morken, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled morken. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Morken most common?
Morken is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Morken?
In Norway, the national register counted 1,874 people named Morken, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
How common is Morken compared with other names?
In Bermuda, Morken is the 355th most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Morken” — ranked 521st in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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