Ilonka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪlɔŋkʰa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ilonka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping and -ka diminutive of Ilona.
- HRCroatia1 in 7K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.5K
- DEGermany≈1 in 47K
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,306 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Clipping and -ka diminutive of Ilona.
Sources 1
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ilonka 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.
2,306 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Ilonka Ravaszb. 1851HUHungarian pianist
- Ilonka Karaszb. 1896HUAmerican designer and illustrator (1896–1981)
- Ilonka Tamásb. 1913HUHungarian opera singer (1913–1943)
- Ilonka Schmidt Mackeyb. 1921CAGerman professor at Université Laval
- Ilonka Breitmeierb. 1953DEGerman actress and painter
- Sara Däbritzb. 1995DEnot in their usual nameGerman footballer
- Ilonka KépesHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Irena Blaustein-Elefantnot in their usual namejournalist
- Ilonka FerjanSIresearcher
- Ilonka van AmstelNLAmstel, Ilonka van
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 2.3K | #743 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 1.8K | #1,466 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 607 | #690 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 574 | #609 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 465 | — |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 287 | #683 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 287 | #656 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 8 | #20,463 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2010 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Ilonka mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping and -ka diminutive of Ilona. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Ilonka?
- In the etymology graph, Ilona, Ilka and Ilike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ilonka?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪlɔŋkʰa/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Ilonka a male or female name?
- Ilonka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ilonka have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Ilonka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ilonka.
- Where is Ilonka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ilonka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 7.0 thousand people — even though Netherlands holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ilonka?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,306 people named Ilonka, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Ilonka compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Ilonka is the 538th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ilonkaThe 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, “Ilonka” — the 538th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.