Štork

surname · Latin script

Štork is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”).

rarermore common
  • GLGreenland1 in 915(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 30K
  • CZCzechia1 in 37K

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)

3,454 people, 2010

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 915 (inferred from the name graph)

Greenland

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 Stork 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)

Derivation of Štork: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Štork
  1. Middle Englishstork(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishstorc(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*stork(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*sturkaz(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sr̥ǵos“stork”(measured from records)

From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

Sources 4

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Štork 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 Štork is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,4541 in 96K3.5KStork11
BR Brazil7701 in 275K770——
NL Netherlands5761 in 30K576—2
AR Argentina3671 in 124K367——
CZ Czechia2921 in 37K294——
SE Sweden2331 in 44K233—1
DK Denmark1171 in 50K117——
GL Greenland631 in 91563——

3,454 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)

Štork is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Stork, Störk

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Stork, Störk

  • English surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Stork, Störk, Stoerk, Śtōŕk

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland

    Also written Stork, Störk

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18801900192019401960Mirko Štork, b. 1880Milan Štork, b. 1949Jiří Štork, b. 1954

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Štork
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—294#4,479
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—292#5,630

Reference works 1

  • 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 Štork mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
In which country does Štork have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Štork, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stork.
Where is Štork most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Štork is densest in Greenland — about 1 in 915 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Štork?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,454 people named Štork in 2010, about 1 in 96 thousand 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, “Štork”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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