Burker
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Burker is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Falkland Islands (Malvinas) it is the 10th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M◐
- FKFalkland Islands (Malvinas)1 in 933
- CDCongo - Kinshasa1 in 214K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈316 ●
- Sources
- 112 ●
- 1 in 750K ◐
across 6 countries
3.3K records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bürker in DE Germany and Buerker in PH Philippines.
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●
One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | 309 | 258 rec. | — | — | Bürker | 27 |
| US United States | — | 294 | 2.6K rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 364 | Burker | 112 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 117 | 114 rec. | — | — | Burker | 11 |
| AU Australia | — | 54 | 56 rec. | — | — | Burker | 4 |
| FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | #10 | 48 | 155 rec. | — | — | Burker | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 36 | 36 rec. | — | — | Burker | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | 16 | 16 rec. | — | — | Burker | 1 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | 12 | 12 rec. | — | — | Burker | 1 |
| AT Austria | — | 12 | 8 rec. | — | — | Burker | 12 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 9 | — | 1 in 1.2M | 9 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | — | 9 | 9 rec. | — | — | Buerker | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 8△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | Burker | 4 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English3K82%
- 1845%
- Spanish1193%
- German652%
- French391%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 2,990 | 82% |
| 184 | 5% | |
| Spanish | 119 | 3% |
| German | 65 | 2% |
| French | 39 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Josimar Burkerb. 1995PAPanamanian association football player
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 364 | #59,889 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 362 | #53,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 294 | #67,126 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 9 | #85,405 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #253,727 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #314,408 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #24,257 |
| PA Panama | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #330 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 12 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Burker?
- We estimate roughly 316 people bear Burker (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Burker have the most bearers?
- Burker is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled bürker.
- How common is Burker compared with other names?
- In Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Burker is the 10th most common surname of 235 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Burker mean?
- Recorded meaning: One who burkes; one who murders in order to sell the body to an anatomist, surgeon, etc.
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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, “Burker” — the 10th most common surname in Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Data snapshot 2026-09-12.