Domke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈdɑmk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Domke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 278K
- IEIreland≈1 in 128K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw. Rufnamen wie Domaslav; zu urslaw. *domъ 'Haus', *doma 'zu Hause'. 2029 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Domke counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 232K | — | Domke | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Domke | 120 |
| US United States | 1,198 | 1 in 278K | 1.2K | Domke | 191 |
| EG Egypt | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Domke | 5 |
| PL Poland | 267 | 1 in 143K | 142 | Domke | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Domke | 1 |
| FI Finland | 40 | 1 in 139K | 40 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 32 | 1 in 171K | 32 | Domke | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ernst Domkeb. 1882DEGerman politician (1882-1945)
- Elli Domkeb. 1888DEGerman politician
- Friedrich Walter Domkeb. 1899DEGerman botanist (1899-1988)
- Martin Domkeb. 1911DEGerman artist and art teacher (1911-2005)
- Helmut Domkeb. 1914DEborn:1914|died:1986|; Domke, Helmut.
- Konrad Domkeb. 1950PLPolish scientist
- Johanna Domkeb. 1978DEGerman film director
- Dieter Domkeb. 1987DEGerman badminton player
- Richard Domkeb. 1991DEbadminton player
- David DomkeUScommunications professor, journalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,556 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,717 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,050 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 142 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 142 | #22,444 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 125 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 125 | #24,553 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #27,507 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 32 | #33,849 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Domke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈdɑmk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Domke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu slaw.
- In which country does Domke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.0 thousand people named Domke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled domke.
- How common is the name Domke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,198 people named Domke in 2010, about 1 in 278 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/domkeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Domke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.