Haňka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Haňka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *hanka, either from Proto-Uralic *šaŋka (“branch”) or a borrowing from Baltic (compare Lithuanian atšanka with an extra prefix).
- CZCzechia1 in 30K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 12K
- SISlovenia1 in 32K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
1,134 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Hanka in CZ Czechia, PL Poland, US United States and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Proto-Finnic*hanka(measured from records)
- Proto-Uralic*šaŋka“branch”(measured from records)
From Proto-Finnic *hanka, either from Proto-Uralic *šaŋka (“branch”) or a borrowing from Baltic (compare Lithuanian atšanka with an extra prefix).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Haňka 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.
1,134 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 72 | #22,071 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Haňka mean, and where does it come from?
- From Proto-Finnic *hanka, either from Proto-Uralic *šaŋka (“branch”) or a borrowing from Baltic (compare Lithuanian atšanka with an extra prefix). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Haňka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Haňka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanka.
- How common is the name Haňka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,134 people named Haňka in 2026, about 1 in 34 thousand residents.
- How common is Haňka compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Haňka is the 247th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ha%C5%88kaThe 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, “Haňka” — the 247th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.