Entry № 5758 · English origin

Lark Lark — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The lark songbird (modern American bird-name)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "the lark songbird (modern american bird-name)".

Lark is from the Old English lāwerce (the lark — a small songbird famous for its early-morning song). The lark in literature — "Hark, hark! Bird thou never wert" — one of the most-anthologized English Romantic poems; the lark is the traditional symbol of dawn and joy across European poetic tradition. Larks (corned lamb) — historic British dish. Lark, Saskatchewan — small Canadian town. Lark Pien — American graphic novelist.

The lark songbird.

The name in its native script.

Lark
Transliteration
Lark
Pronunciation
/ lɑːrk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lark stands.

Lark does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Larks before her.

Real people
Lark Voorhies
American actress (Saved by the Bell).
born 1974
In fiction
The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams's iconic piece.
1914

Names connected to Lark.

The number behind Lark.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lark reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.