Strike

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from strike, the measuring stick for levelling grain; first attested Nicholas Stryke 1296 SRSx (A Dictionary of English Surnames)

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/stiː.ɹaɪk/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary

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Strike is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 696 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.

  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 120K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 130Kfew records
  • CACanada≈1 in 190Kfew records

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.

United States (measured from records)

696 people, 2010

Record sources
209 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

United Kingdom, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Strike

  • English:/stiː.ɹaɪk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from strike, the measuring stick for levelling grain; first attested Nicholas Stryke 1296 SRSx

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Strike is found

(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.

Where Strike is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—6961 in 478K744Strike209
GB United Kingdom—≈580 est.≈1 in 120K798Strike115
ZA South Africa—≈230 est.≈1 in 281K—Strike14
CA Canada—≈210 est.≈1 in 195K—Strike66
AU Australia—≈210 est.≈1 in 129K—Strike74
IE Ireland—≈25 est.≈1 in 214K—Strike2
ML Mali#649≈11 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Strike1

696 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 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Strike is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Mexico, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Strikë, ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶, Ṥtrįke

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Striķe

47 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.

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)

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

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?
In English /stiː.ɹaɪk/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Strike?
In the United States, the national register counted about 696 people named Strike, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled strike. After it come United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
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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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” — ranked 32935th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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