Starky

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/stɑɹki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Starky is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts; London. see Starkey .

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)

Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts; London. see Starkey .

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Where in the world(measured from records)

Starky counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Starky is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—163—
GB United Kingdom—13—
PL Poland—2—
CR Costa Rica—1—
EC Ecuador—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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Mr Starky,
InformalHi Starky,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Starky
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010163#108,734
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000130#122,534
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020111#148,665
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200213#120,601
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#389,912
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Starky mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs; Notts; London. see Starkey . Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
How do you pronounce Starky?
A machine transcription gives /stɑɹki/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Starky have the most bearers?
Starky is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/starky

The 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, “Starky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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