Sánka

surname · Latin script

Sánka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 116K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 461K
  • INIndia1 in 1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

1,298 people

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sáňka in CZ Czechia and Sańka in PL Poland.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sánka 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.

Where Sánka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,2981 in 1M1.3K—3
US United States1281 in 2.6M257—3
CZ Czechia921 in 116K92Sáňka8
PL Poland831 in 461K47Sańka7
SK Slovakia———Sánka9

1,298 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sánka is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Hungary

    Also written Sanka, Sáňka

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sánka is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In gmq-scy, To collect.

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Sánka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#213,771

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Sánka have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Sánka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sánka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sánka is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 116 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sánka?
In India, the national register counted 1,298 people named Sánka, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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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, “Sánka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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