Given name & surname
Stark
“having great strength”
Stark is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “having great strength.”
Original GermanStärkle
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “having great strength.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Stark through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 257
- 257 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2019
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 13
- #6,752 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −21%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 13 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 6,752 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 21.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 27 in 2019. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020; 39,649 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.
Stark’s family of names
In Swedish usage, Stark has a later derivative in TARKKA. Stark has a related form in Starck. Stark has a related form in Starcke.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Stark
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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