Yorke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of York: a city in North Yorkshire, England
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɒɹk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yorke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 35K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 211K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 768 (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Obsolete spelling of York: a city in North Yorkshire, England.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yorke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 147K | — | Yorke | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 3.1K | Yorke | 171 |
| US United States | — | 1,579 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Yorke | 289 |
| GH Ghana | #990 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Yorke | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Yorke | 133 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 132 | 1 in 768 | 132 | — | 4 |
| DM Dominica | — | 8 | 1 in 9.3K | 8 | — | 1 |
| GD Grenada | — | 5 | 1 in 23K | 5 | — | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Yorke 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, person from York, Yorkshire.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Irish, In Ulster this is of English origin; in Connacht and west Leinster it is the modern form of the obsolete MacEngarky, or MacIngarke ( Mac Conchearca, hound of Cearc)
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)
- Philip Yorkeb. 1690GBEnglish lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor (1690-1764)
- Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwickeb. 1836GBBritish aristocrat, Conservative politician, dandy and bankrupt (1836-1897)
- Henry Greenb. 1905GBnot in their usual nameEnglish novelist (1905-1973)
- Billie Yorkeb. 1910GBBritish tennis player (1910-2000)
- Margaret Yorkeb. 1924GBBritish writer (1924-2012)
- James A. Yorkeb. 1941USmathematician, researcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-9599-0136
- Barbara Yorkeb. 1951GBEnglish historian
- John Yorkeb. 1962GBTV Producer
- Thom Yorkeb. 1968GBEnglish musician and singer for Radiohead
- Dwight Yorkeb. 1971TTTrinidad and Tobago association football player
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 3.1K | #2,539 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,745 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,884 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 132 | #135 |
| DM Dominica | Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025 | 2025 | 8 | #219 |
| GD Grenada | Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025 | 2025 | 5 | #218 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Yorke mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of York: a city in North Yorkshire, England. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Yorke?
- A machine transcription gives /jɒɹk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Yorke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Yorke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yorke.
- Where is Yorke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yorke is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 768 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yorke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,579 people named Yorke in 2010, about 1 in 211 thousand residents.
- How common is Yorke compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Yorke is the 990th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yorkeThe 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, “Yorke” — the 990th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.