Ãlker

surname · Latin script

Ãlker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. locative name from Altcar (Lancs).

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 262K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 652K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 934K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

247 people, 2010

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Alker in US United States.

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. locative name from Altcar (Lancs). Further information: see Auker for a possible alternative source of Alker, but there is no evidence that this gave rise to the Lancs name.

Sources 2

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ãlker 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.

Where Ãlker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2471 in 1.3M267Alker2
PL Poland1461 in 262K74——
DK Denmark91 in 652K9——
CH Switzerland91 in 934K9——
CZ Czechia91 in 1.2M9——

247 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 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ãlker is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Alker

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ãlker under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ãlker mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Lancs. locative name from Altcar (Lancs). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Ãlker have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 247 people named Ãlker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled alker.
Where is Ãlker most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ãlker is densest in Poland — about 1 in 262 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ãlker?
In the United States, the national register counted 247 people named Ãlker in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Ãlker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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