Family name origins & meanings
- Danish (Mørk) and Swedish (Mörk) : nickname for someone with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Danish mørk, Swedish mörk ‘dark’ (Old Norse myrkr, whence also the English word murk(y)).
- Norwegian : habitational name from any of about 20 farmsteads so named, from Old Norse mǫrk ‘wood’.