Hark Surname
Approximately 2,220 people bear this surname
Hark Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 807 | 1:449,144 | 38,490 |
| Germany | 612 | 1:131,545 | 16,013 |
| Egypt | 183 | 1:502,381 | 28,715 |
| England | 160 | 1:348,238 | 25,208 |
| Turkey | 111 | 1:701,094 | 35,880 |
| Estonia | 65 | 1:20,335 | 3,530 |
| Iraq | 63 | 1:555,899 | 8,855 |
| Poland | 62 | 1:613,044 | 55,163 |
| Canada | 26 | 1:1,417,138 | 98,245 |
| India | 23 | 1:33,350,669 | 396,143 |
| New Zealand | 16 | 1:283,020 | 24,643 |
| Papua New Guinea | 12 | 1:679,476 | 78,554 |
| Brazil | 10 | 1:21,407,433 | 350,627 |
| Netherlands | 10 | 1:1,688,718 | 81,846 |
| Ghana | 9 | 1:3,002,299 | 11,581 |
| Australia | 7 | 1:3,856,529 | 135,538 |
| China | 5 | 1:273,464,313 | 13,838 |
| Finland | 4 | 1:1,374,176 | 50,379 |
| Syria | 4 | 1:4,825,256 | 12,827 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1:18,059,235 | 248,362 |
| Nigeria | 3 | 1:59,047,586 | 507,603 |
| Malaysia | 3 | 1:9,831,408 | 269,765 |
| Lebanon | 2 | 1:2,818,542 | 25,087 |
| Cambodia | 2 | 1:7,743,573 | 11,959 |
| South Korea | 2 | 1:25,620,128 | 4,175 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Denmark | 2 | 1:2,822,358 | 76,882 |
| Israel | 1 | 1:8,557,634 | 182,558 |
| Algeria | 1 | 1:38,631,551 | 130,422 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Yemen | 1 | 1:26,425,294 | 55,147 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Ukraine | 1 | 1:45,522,696 | 503,646 |
| Morocco | 1 | 1:34,476,099 | 111,471 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Japan | 1 | 1:127,844,293 | 73,547 |
| Latvia | 1 | 1:2,050,046 | 60,295 |
| Scotland | 1 | 1:5,353,817 | 63,002 |
| Ireland | 1 | 1:4,708,939 | 29,543 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | 8 | 1:553,733 | 17,655 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 66 | 1:369,324 | 22,972 |
| Scotland | 8 | 1:467,902 | 12,875 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:1,568,416 | 19,290 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 197 | 1:254,917 | 21,039 |
The alternate forms: Härk (13) are calculated separately.
Hark (1,031) may also be a first name.
Hark Demographics
Average Male Hark Height
175.71 cm
Sample is predominantly from Anglosphere countries
Hark Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Hark Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Hark (Arabic: هارك, Bengali: হর্ক, Hindi: हर्क, Marathi: हरक) occurs most in The United States. It can be found as a variant: Härk. Click here for further potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Hark? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 190,196th most frequently held surname globally, held by approximately 1 in 3,282,678 people. The last name occurs mostly in Europe, where 42 percent of Hark live; 38 percent live in North America and 37 percent live in Anglo-North America. Hark is also the 249,846th most numerous given name world-wide It is held by 1,031 people.
The surname Hark is most numerous in The United States, where it is carried by 807 people, or 1 in 449,144. In The United States Hark is most numerous in: New York, where 14 percent live, California, where 11 percent live and Missouri, where 8 percent live. Aside from The United States this surname exists in 38 countries. It is also found in Germany, where 28 percent live and Egypt, where 8 percent live.
Hark Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The frequency of Hark has changed through the years. In The United States the share of the population with the last name rose 410 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it rose 242 percent between 1881 and 2014; in Scotland it fell 87 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it fell 87 percent between 1901 and 2014.
Hark Last Name Statistics demography
The religious devotion of those bearing the Hark last name is predominantly Catholic (100%) in Ireland.
In The United States those bearing the Hark surname are 15.53% more likely to be registered Republicans than The US average, with 62.3% registered with the political party.
The amount Hark earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 17.86% more than the national average, earning $50,856 USD per year and in Canada they earn 8.52% more than the national average, earning $53,916 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Hark Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hark in the Bengali language | ||
| হর্ক | harka | - |
| Hark in the Hindi language | ||
| हर्क | harka | 77.78 |
| हरक | haraka | 16.67 |
| हरी | hari | 5.56 |
| Hark in the Marathi language | ||
| हरक | haraka | 58.33 |
| हारक | haraka | 33.33 |
| हक | haka | 8.33 |
| Hark in the Arabic language | ||
| هارك | hark | - |
| حرك | hrk | - |
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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
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- 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 Hark
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