Yorke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of York: a city in North Yorkshire, England (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines, 2025
Yorke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 768(measured from records)
- DMDominica1 in 9.3K
- GDGrenada1 in 23K
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 Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 768 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Yorke is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 3.1K | Yorke | 171 |
| US United States | — | 1,579 | 1 in 211K | 1.6K | Yorke | 289 |
| GH Ghana | #990 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Yorke | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Yorke | 133 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 63K | 1 | Yorke | 103 |
| 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); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); 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)- Margaret Yorkeb. 1924GBBritish writer (1924-2012)
- 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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
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).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Yorke?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Yorke in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yorke. After it come United States, Ghana, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 United Kingdom 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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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” — ranked 2539th in the United Kingdom (Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.