Shunk
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɐŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shunk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Imitative. Compare thunk, shlick.
- USUnited States1 in 239K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 679Kas Шунк
- IEIreland≈1 in 77K
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 Shunk 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 207 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шунк in RU Russia.
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)
Imitative. Compare thunk, shlick.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shunk 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Shunk | 1 |
| US United States | 1,393 | 1 in 239K | 1.4K | Shunk | 207 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 252K | — | Shunk | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 165K | — | Shunk | 25 |
| RU Russia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 679K | — | Шунк | 81 |
| IE Ireland | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Shunk | 1 |
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. 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)
- Francis Rawn Shunkb. 1788USAmerican politician (1788-1848)
- Harry Shunkb. 1924DEGerman photographer (1924-2006)
- Francis J ShunkUSShunk, Francis J; class of 1853
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 9 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #19,328 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,777 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Shunk mean, and where does it come from?
- Imitative. Compare thunk, shlick. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shunk?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɐŋk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shunk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Shunk in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shunk.
- How common is the name Shunk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,393 people named Shunk in 2010, about 1 in 239 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shunk?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shunkThe 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, “Shunk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.