Tunka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Tunka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: — žr. Tunkus.
- CZCzechia1 in 79K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 6.4M
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 79K (inferred from the name graph)
135 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
— žr. Tunkus
Sources 1
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Tunka 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.
135 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Tunka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Tunka, prince. 1609.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Finnish, a blood sausage made of reindeer blood and reindeer fat
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1984 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1955 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1986 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1978 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1973 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1969 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1963 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1962 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1960 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2012 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Tunka mean, and where does it come from?
- — žr. Tunkus Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
- In which country does Tunka have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 135 people named Tunka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tunka most common?
- Tunka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 79 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tunka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 135 people named Tunka, about 1 in 79 thousand 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, “Tunka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.