Shirko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: "wide"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɝkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shirko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 106Kas Ширко(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 183Kas Ширко
- BYBelarus≈1 in 27Kas Ширко
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shirko itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈780 named Ширко, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est., as Ширко
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ширко in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus 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(measured from records)
"wide."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shirko 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 183K | Ширко | 102 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 106K | Ширко | 18 |
| BY Belarus | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 27K | Ширко | 15 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 71K | Ширко | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | Ширко | 15 |
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.
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)
Attested in 9 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Shirko mean, and where does it come from?
- "wide." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Shirko?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɝkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shirko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 776 people named Ширко in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shirko?
- Mondonomo estimates about 780 people in Russia have Ширко as their first surname, about 1 in 183 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Shirko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirkoThe 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, “Shirko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.