Biruk
given name · Amharic · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Biruk is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is the 24th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Amharic and , written in the Latin script.
- ETEthiopia1 in 1.2K◐
- USUnited States1 in 552K
- SESweden1 in 120K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈722 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 89 ●
- 1 in 120K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
6.1K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bruk in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 9 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ 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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | #24 | 3,287 | 2.2K rec. | — | listed | Biruk | 34 |
| US United States | — | 603 | 3K rec. | 1 in 552K | 603 | Bruk | 89 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 154 | 152 rec. | — | — | Bruk | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | 100 | 127 rec. | — | 2 | Bruk | 20 |
| SE Sweden | — | 85 | 235 rec. | 1 in 120K | 85 | Biruk | 9 |
| DE Germany | — | 80 | 92 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 30 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 47 | 51 rec. | — | — | Biruk | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 26 | 27 rec. | — | — | Biruk | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 53 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 16 |
| PL Poland | — | 22 | — | 1 in 1.7M | 168 | — | — |
| IN India | — | 19 | 12 rec. | — | — | Biruk | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 18 | 22 rec. | — | 1 | Bruk | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Amharic2.3K34%
- 2K30%
- English89413%
- Turkish1943%
- Swahili1773%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Amharic | 2,326 | 34% |
| 2,040 | 30% | |
| English | 894 | 13% |
| Turkish | 194 | 3% |
| Swahili | 177 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 |
| 2006 | 9 |
| 2007 | 5 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 10 |
| 2014 | 9 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 12 |
| 2017 | 16 |
| 2018 | 12 |
| 2019 | 10 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 10 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 20 years between 1998–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 603 | #17,586 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 251 | #81,311 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 168 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 168 | #18,938 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 141 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 141 | #22,573 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,679 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 46 | #12,507 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 38 | #11,070 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 34 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 33 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 67 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Biruk?
- We estimate roughly 722 people bear Biruk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Biruk have the most bearers?
- Biruk is most frequently recorded in Ethiopia, where it is most often spelled biruk.
- How common is Biruk compared with other names?
- In Ethiopia, Biruk is the 24th most common given name of 35,068 given names recorded there.
- Is Biruk a male or female name?
- Biruk is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/birukThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Biruk” — the 24th most common given name in Ethiopia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.