Bjerke
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
/bjɛrkə/(machine-generated) Norwegian · model-generated
Bjerke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country, where it is the 83rd most common surname.
- NONorway1 in 767(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 31K
- GHGhana≈1 in 41Kfew records
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- 1 in 767 (inferred from the name graph)
7,132 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bjerke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #83 | 7,132 | 1 in 767 | 7.1K | Bjerke | 93 |
| US United States | — | 2,168 | 1 in 153K | 2.2K | Bjerke | 186 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Bjerke | 8 |
| SE Sweden | — | 330 | 1 in 31K | 330 | Bjerke | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Bjerke | 28 |
| DK Denmark | — | 66 | 1 in 89K | 66 | Bjerke | 31 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Bjerke | 1 |
7,132 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Bjerke 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 Latvian, sala Baltijas jūras Olandshava šaurumā, Zviedrijas piekrastē, Stokholmas lēnē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Ejlert Bjerkeb. 1887NONorwegian novelist, poet, playwright and essayist (1887–1963)
- André Bjerkeb. 1918NONorwegian writer and poet (1918–1985)
- Juul Bjerkeb. 1928NONorwegian economist and politician
- Björn Bjerkeb. 1941SESwedish economist
- Siri Bjerkeb. 1958NONorwegian politician (1958-2012)
- Rune Bjerkeb. 1960NONorwegian business leader and politician
- Vilde Bjerkeb. 1960NONorwegian actor and writer
- Desiree Bjerkeb. 1971NONorwegian skeleton racer
- Espen Reboli Bjerkeb. 1973NONorwegian actor
- Silje Bjerkeb. 1982NONorwegian chess 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)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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
- How do you pronounce Bjerke?
- In Norwegian /bjɛrkə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bjerke have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Bjerke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bjerke.
- Where is Bjerke most common?
- Bjerke is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 767 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bjerke?
- In Norway, the national register counted 7,132 people named Bjerke, about 1 in 767 residents.
- How common is Bjerke compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bjerke is the 83rd most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjerke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjerkeThe 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, “Bjerke” — the 83rd most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.