Strike
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from strike, the measuring stick for levelling grain; first attested Nicholas Stryke 1296 SRSx
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/stɹaɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Strike is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mali than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 125K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 478K
- MLMali≈1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mali (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈860 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Mali, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from strike, the measuring stick for levelling grain; first attested Nicholas Stryke 1296 SRSx
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Strike 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ML Mali | #649 | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Strike | 1 |
| US United States | — | 696 | 1 in 478K | 744 | Strike | 209 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 798 | Strike | 115 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Strike | 74 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 300K | — | Strike | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Strike | 66 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Strike | 2 |
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). 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)
Strike is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kr, fire. tsindderdm, s. a steel for striking fire. tsinnd, s. gate, door. tsindgdwa, a. being characterized by the word "tSindgS! rise"!
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In Portuguese, strike (the act of knocking down all pins)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, strike (in baseball and ten-pin bowling)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In och, to strike, attack
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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)
- John Strikeb. 1865USAmerican baseball player
- Hilda Strikeb. 1910CAathletics competitor
- James Strikeb. 1939GBarchitect and writer, born 1939-01-18
- Johnny Strikeb. 1948USAmerican musician (1948-2018)
- Sheila Strikeb. 1954CACanadian basketball player (born 1954)
- Anne Wafula Strikeb. 1969British wheelchair racer
- Laci Strikeb. 1974Slovak choreographer
- Sam Strikeb. 1994GBEnglish actor
- Sylvaine StrikeZASouth African actress
- Tod StrikeAUAustralian actor
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 798 | #7,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 744 | #33,022 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 696 | #32,935 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 632 | #33,993 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Strike mean, and where does it come from?
- from strike, the measuring stick for levelling grain; first attested Nicholas Stryke 1296 SRSx Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Strike?
- A machine transcription gives /stɹaɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Strike have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 857 people named Strike in Mali, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strike.
- How common is the name Strike?
- In the United States, the national register counted 696 people named Strike in 2010, about 1 in 478 thousand residents.
- How common is Strike compared with other names?
- In Mali, Strike is the 649th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/strikeThe 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, “Strike” — the 649th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.