 It has also become highly popular in the Jewish Klezmer repertoire.In Georgia, the tune became widely adopted into traditional folk music repertoire and is known as "Torola" (ტოროლა, the lark)

During the communist-era, the Romanian intelligence service operated a numbers station believed to be used by spies in foreign countries.The station known as "V01" became well known for its use of Ciocârlia as its opening interval, which would be followed by a series of number-coded messages in Romanian and concluded with the words "Terminat."