Given name & surname
Kirke
“fellatio”
Kirke is a surname from Middle English. It is used in English and Estonian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kirke is a form of Kirk. Kirk comes from Old Norse, and ultimately from Koine Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1934. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kirke through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 71
- 71 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1938
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1964. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 1938. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 142 as a first name in 2020; 165 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kirke’s family of names
In English usage, Kirke as a surname has a related form in Kirk. In Greek usage, Kirke as a surname is a transliteration of Κίρκε.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Kirke
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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