Starkie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: little Stark
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Starkie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 81K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 190Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 720Kfew records
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 Starkie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
15,004 named Starkey, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Liberia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)little Stark.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where the surname Starkie is found
(measured from records)Starkie 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 | — | 15,004as Starkey | 1 in 22K | 15K | Starkie | 162 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 81K | 5.2K | Starkie | 139 |
| LR Liberia | #692 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Starkie | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 185K | — | Starkie | 50 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 721K | — | Starkie | 27 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Starkie | 1 |
15,004 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling starkey. 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)- Le Gendre Starkieb. 1828GBBritish politician (1828-1899)
- Walter Starkieb. 1894IEIrish scholar, expert on the Romani people (1894–1976)
- Enid Starkieb. 1897IEIrish literary critic (1897-1970)
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Starkie mean, and where does it come from?
- little Stark. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Starkie?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Starkey, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United Kingdom, Liberia, Australia and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Starkie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 15,004 people named Starkey in 2010, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Starkie compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Starkie is the 692nd most common surname of 10,200 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Starkie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/starkieThe 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, “Starkie” — the 692nd most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.