Striker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: job was to fill level measures of corn by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess, from an agent deriv
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɹajka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Striker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 325K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 50K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 72K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,025 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
job was to fill level measures of corn by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess, from an agent deriv. of ME strike(n) to stroke, smooth (OE strTccan). Vars.: Strike (a metonymic name from the stick used); Straker (from the OE byform stracian).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Striker 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 | 1,025 | 1 in 325K | 1.1K | Striker | 226 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Striker | 5 |
| IN India | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Striker | 12 |
| EG Egypt | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 606K | — | Striker | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 170 | 1 in 268K | 170 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 225K | 1 | Striker | 45 |
| GA Gabon | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 2 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Striker | 1 |
1,025 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 2020; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Striker is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, was to fill level measures of corn by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess, from an agent deriv. of ME strike(n) to stroke, smooth (OE striccan).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A person who is on strike, someone who has stopped working as a protest.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Garrit Hopper Strikerb. 1784Millionaire landowner of NYC (1784-1868)
- Gideon Strikerb. 1825CACanadian politician
- Laura Strikerb. 1882UShistorian, feminist
- Joseph Strikerb. 1898USfilm actor (1898-1974)
- Fran Strikerb. 1903USAmerican radio and comic writer (1903–1962)
- György Strikerb. 1913(1913–1992)
- Gisela Strikerb. 1943DEGerman-American historian of philosophy (1943-)
- Leah Strikerb. 1973DEGerman cinematographer
- Matt Strikerb. 1974USAmerican professional wrestler and commentator
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #24,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #22,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,431 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 170 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Where does the name Striker come from?
- job was to fill level measures of corn by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess, from an agent deriv. of ME strike(n) to stroke, smooth (OE strTccan). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Striker?
- A machine transcription gives /stɹajka/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Striker mean?
- Recorded meaning: job was to fill level measures of corn by passing a flat stick over the brim of the measure, thus removing any heaped excess, from an agent deriv.
- In which country does Striker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Striker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled striker.
- How common is the name Striker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,025 people named Striker in 2010, about 1 in 325 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strikerThe 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, “Striker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.