Soenke
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymisch; zu fries
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/zɔɛŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Soenke is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 8.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12Kas Sönke
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 166K
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 Soenke 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 166K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 named Sönke, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sönke in DE Germany, SE Sweden and Sonke in US United States, ZA South Africa.
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)Patronymisch; zu fries. Rufname Sönke, aus Diminutiv von „Sohn“.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Soenke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #891 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Sönke | 106 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Sonke | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Soenke | 10 |
| US United States | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | 160 | Sonke | 101 |
| SE Sweden | — | 17as Sönke | 1 in 600K | 17 | Sönke | 7 |
| DK Denmark | — | 11as Sönke | 1 in 534K | 11 | — | — |
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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Reference works 1
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
- How do you pronounce Soenke?
- A machine transcription gives /zɔɛŋkə/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Soenke a male or female name?
- Soenke is a male 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.
- What does the name Soenke mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymisch; zu fries.
- In which country does Soenke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Sönke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Soenke?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 17 people named Sönke, about 1 in 600 thousand residents.
- How common is Soenke compared with other names?
- In Germany, Soenke is the 891st most common given name of 156,202 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/soenkeThe 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, “Soenke” — the 891st most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.