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 (The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈstɹaɪkə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Striker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,025 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- CACanada≈1 in 210Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 268K
- USUnited States1 in 325K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 50K (inferred from the name graph)
1,025 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Striker
- English:/ˈstɹaɪkə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/stɾiceɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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).
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Striker is found
(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 |
| IN India | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Striker | 12 |
| CA Canada | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 1 | Striker | 45 |
| AR Argentina | 170 | 1 in 268K | 170 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 451K | 22 | Striker | 42 |
| NL Netherlands | 48 | 1 in 360K | 48 | Striker | 16 |
| 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; 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)- Joseph Strikerb. 1898USfilm actor (1898-1974)
- 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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
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?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈstɹaɪkə/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /stɾiceɾ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Striker?
- 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. After it come India, Canada, Argentina and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 22654th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.