Pirker
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɪʁkʰɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pirker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 91K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 105K
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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 101 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pirker 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #146 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Pirker | 101 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 199K | — | Pirker | 77 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 80 | 1 in 105K | 80 | Pirker | 19 |
| US United States | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Pirker | 55 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Pirker | 21 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 23 | 1 in 91K | 23 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 10 | 1 in 1.1M | 10 | — | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Lotte Pirkerb. 1877ATAustrian politician
- Herbert Pirkerb. 1922ATAustrian biology teacher and photographer
- Theo Pirkerb. 1922DEGerman sociologist (1922–1995)
- Pero Pirkerb. 1927HRCroatian and Yugoslav politician
- Hubert Pirkerb. 1948ATAustrian politician
- Sasha Pirkerb. 1969ATAustrian filmmaker and visual artist
- Peter Pirkerb. 1970ATAustrian historian
- Jürgen Pirkerb. 1985ATAustrian professor
- Johanna Pirkerb. 1988ATAustrian researcher
- Daniel Pirkerb. 1990ATAustrian 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 16 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 80 | #13,092 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 23 | #12,495 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #79,438 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Pirker?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɪʁkʰɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Pirker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Pirker in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pirker.
- How common is the name Pirker?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 80 people named Pirker in 2024, about 1 in 105 thousand residents.
- How common is Pirker compared with other names?
- In Austria, Pirker is the 146th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pirkerThe 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, “Pirker” — the 146th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.