Bjørk Surname

499,041st
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 660 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Norway
Highest density in:
Faroe Islands

Bjørk Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Bjørk Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Norway4751:10,8261,202
Denmark1671:33,8013,490
Faroe Islands81:6,125639
Netherlands51:3,377,435111,911
Spain21:23,376,018128,922
China11:1,367,321,56651,149
Greenland11:56,3791,133
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448

The alternate forms: Bjrk (591) are calculated separately.

Bjørk (137) may also be a first name.

Bjørk Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bjørk Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Bjørk occurs more in Norway more than any other country/territory. It can occur as: Bjrk. Click here for other possible spellings of this last name.

How Common Is The Last Name Bjørk? popularity and diffusion

It is the 499,041st most prevalent last name in the world, borne by approximately 1 in 11,041,736 people. The surname occurs predominantly in Europe, where 100 percent of Bjørk live; 99 percent live in Northern Europe and 99 percent live in Scandinavia. Bjørk is also the 790,880th most frequently held first name world-wide, borne by 137 people.

This last name is most frequent in Norway, where it is borne by 475 people, or 1 in 10,826. In Norway Bjørk is most common in: Eastern Norway, where 59 percent are found, Western Norway, where 23 percent are found and Central Norway, where 9 percent are found. Other than Norway this surname occurs in 7 countries. It also occurs in Denmark, where 25 percent are found and The Faroe Islands, where 1 percent are found.

Bjørk Last Name Statistics demography

Bjørk earn marginally less than the average income. In Norway they earn 4.4% less than the national average, earning 330,869 kr per year.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Bjrk96591/
Bjørke91871/
Bjørck9151/
Bjørkå9133/
Bjørkø913/
Bjørkås83317/
Bjørkøe834/
Bjrck8051/
Bujrk800/
Bjærke7346/
Bjørgå7310/
Bjreke731/
Berk6729,234/
Burk6727,316/
Birk6719,251/
Håbjørg6745/
Byrk6735/
Bärk6718/
Bjørgås6717/
Bjrc672/
Bsrk672/
Bjrx671/
Bjrq671/
Bxrk671/
Vjrk671/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Bjørk
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