Nurk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: corner
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nurk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Estonia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 4.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 54K
- DEGermany≈1 in 546K
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.
- Estonia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nürk 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)
corner
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nurk 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.
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: the ee-stat-nimed register; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Nurkb. 1889EEEstonian politician (1889-1944)
- Ernst Nurkb. 1902EEEstonian agricultural engineer (1902-1977)
- Tiina Nurkb. 1918EEEstonian art historian (1918-2006)
- Ahto Nurkb. 1931EEEstonian choir director and musicologist (1931-2017)
- Enn Nurkb. 1935EEEstonian educationalist (1935-1999)
- Teet Nurkb. 1954EEEstonian forestry scientist (born 1954)
- Anu Nurkb. 1961EEEstonian linguist (born 1961)
- Mart Nurkb. 1964EEEstonian actor (born 1964)
- Kristiina Nurkb. 1972EEEstonian swimmer (born 1972)
- Gunnar Nurkb. 1976EEEstonian chemist (born 1976)
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 352 | #92 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 323 | #129 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 104 | #12,400 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,069 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Nurk mean, and where does it come from?
- corner Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Nurk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 298 people named Nurk in Estonia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nurk.
- How common is the name Nurk?
- In Finland, the national register counted 104 people named Nurk, about 1 in 54 thousand residents.
- How common is Nurk compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Nurk is the 130th most common surname of 37,297 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nurk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nurkThe 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, “Nurk” — the 130th most common surname in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.