Berserk
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: berserk, berserker (frenzied Norse warrior) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Berserk is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Russia. Berserk is also written Берсерк in Cyrillic.
- RURussia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
no count published
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Berserk in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Берсерк in RU Russia.
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)Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Berserk is read
(measured from records)Berserk is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French44%
berserk, berserker (frenzied Norse warrior)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berserk in Spanish.
- English12%
Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Berserk in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Berserk counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |
|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | Берсерк | 17 |
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.
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Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Berserk is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, berserker (Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Berserk come from?
- Synonym of berserker (“a Norse warrior who fought in a frenzy”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Berserk?
- In the etymology graph, Berzerk is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Berserk mean?
- In French, berserk, berserker (frenzied Norse warrior)
- In which country does Berserk have the most bearers?
- Berserk is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled берсерк.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/berserkThe 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, “Berserk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.