Staerk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Staerk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.6Kas Stark(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.4Kas Stark
- CACanada≈1 in 6.9Kas Stark
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Staerk 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 496 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
41,735 named Stark, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden, as Stark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Stark in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 5 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Staerk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #651 | 41,735as Stark | 1 in 8K | 42K | Stark | 496 |
| DE Germany | #139 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Stark | 204 |
| GB United Kingdom | #850 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 3.9K | Stark | 212 |
| CA Canada | #595 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 1 | Stark | 184 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Stark | 21 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,173as Stark | 1 in 3.2K | 3.2K | Stark | 64 |
| AT Austria | #256 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Stark | 84 |
| CH Switzerland | #923 | 1,237as Stark | 1 in 6.8K | 1.2K | Stark | 50 |
| FI Finland | — | 953as Stark | 1 in 5.8K | 953 | — | 22 |
41,735 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Franz Staerkb. 1859ATAustrian architect
- Willy Staerkb. 1866DEtheologian (1866-1946)
- Antoine Staerkb. 1871Benedictine monk
- Dan StaerkDKresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Staerk have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Stark, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Staerk most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Staerk itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Sweden's: the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people named Stark.
- How common is the name Staerk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,735 people named Stark in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Staerk compared with other names?
- In the United States, Staerk is the 651st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Staerk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/staerkThe 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, “Staerk” — the 651st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.