Nok
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Initialism of not our kind
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəʊk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nok is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- THThailand≈1 in 9.1Kas พรชนก(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania1 in 118K
- SESweden1 in 486K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nok itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 named พรชนก, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
11 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled พรชนก in TH Thailand, ID Indonesia.
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)
Initialism of not our kind.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nok is read(measured from records)
Nok is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English21%
Initialism of not our kind.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Chinese18%
Diaphragm
as a wordrecorded as wuuAn English-Chinese Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
- Indonesian17%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nok in Indonesian.
- Thai16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nok in Thai.
- Khmer5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nok in Khmer.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nok 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.
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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nok is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, grave, reverent, severe, rapid, the whirring sound of flying geese
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
ISO 639-3 language code for Nooksack.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rhg, nail (on fingers/toes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, ridge of a roof
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 26 | #6,301 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21 | #24,051 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 14 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Nok mean, and where does it come from?
- Initialism of not our kind. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Nok?
- A machine transcription gives /nəʊk/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Nok a male or female name?
- Nok 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 Nok have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named พรชนก in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nok most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nok is densest in Albania — about 1 in 118 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nok?
- In Albania, the national register counted 26 people named Nok, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
- How common is Nok compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Nok is the 872nd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nok?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nokThe 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, “Nok” — the 872nd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.