Morken
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Murchain ‘descendant of Murchdn’, a diminutive of the personal name Murchadh (see Murphy)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɔɹkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Morken is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 430K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 2.9K
- BMBermuda≈1 in 13K
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)
- Sources
- 194 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,874 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Anglicized form of Gaelic 6 Murchain ‘descendant of Murchdn’, a diminutive of the personal name Murchadh (see Murphy).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | — | 1,874 | 1 in 2.9K | 1.9K | Morken | 28 |
| US United States | — | 774 | 1 in 430K | 774 | Morken | 194 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 398K | — | Morken | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 536K | — | Morken | 11 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Morken | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Morken | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Morken | 1 |
| BM Bermuda | #355 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Morken | 1 |
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). 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)
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)
- Ragnar Juell Morkenb. 1910NOfeatured in the Norwegian Who's Who 1973
- Sverre Morkenb. 1945NONorwegian painter
- Johannes Morkenb. 1959NONorwegian journalist
- Anders Aa. Morkenb. 1966NONorwegian contributing editor
- Nils-Halvdan Morkenb. 1969NONorwegian researcher
- John Ole Morkenb. 1979NONorwegian musician
- Kåre Helvik Morkenb. 1988NONorwegian volleyball player
- Alvilde Morkenb. 1989NONorwegian swimmer
- Gunnar MorkenNOresearcher
- Ingvild Fjeldstad MorkenNONorwegian association football player
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.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɔɹkən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Morken have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/morkenThe 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, “Morken” — the 355th most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.