Ivanka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/i˨˦ʋaŋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ivanka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Czech Ivanka, from Ivana + -ka, q.v. Doublet of Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
- HRCroatia1 in 252(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.7K
- BGBulgaria1 in 122as Иванка
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 Ivanka 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.
- Bulgaria (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 252 (inferred from the name graph)
57,035 named Иванка, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Иванка in BG Bulgaria.
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)
- CzechIvanka(measured from records)
- Ivana+(measured from records)
From Czech Ivanka, from Ivana + -ka, q.v. Doublet of Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Sources 4
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivanka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #24 | 57,035as Иванка | 1 in 122 | 57K | Иванка | 94 |
| HR Croatia | #62 | 16,804 | 1 in 252 | 17K | Ivanka | 75 |
| CZ Czechia | #684 | 7,648 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.6K | Ivanka | 43 |
| SI Slovenia | #517 | 4,162 | 1 in 505 | 4.2K | Ivanka | 14 |
| RS Serbia | #234 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | listed | Ivanka | 29 |
| MK North Macedonia | #744 | 996as Иванка | 1 in 2.1K | 996 | Ivanka | 10 |
57,035 people counted by NSI — most common given names (population), 2018. 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: NSI — most common given names (population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Ivanka 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 Russian, dim of Ioann.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivanka Mežanb. 1926SIactor
- Ivanka Devátáb. 1935CZCzech actress
- Ivanka Khristovab. 1941BGBulgarian shot putter (1941–2022)
- Ivanka Vanchevab. 1953BGBulgarian javelin thrower
- Ivanka Brađaševićb. 1955HRCroatian poet, writer and librarian (born 1955)
- Ivanka Gergovab. 1955BGBulgarian art historian
- Ivanka Matićb. 1979RSSerbian basketball player (born 1979)
- Ivanka Trumpb. 1981USAmerican businesswoman, socialite and political advisior (born 1981)
- Ivanka Brekalob. 1981DEGerman actress
- Ivanka ApostolovaMKMacedonian performing arts professional
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)
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)
Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 57K | #2 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 17K | #50 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 14K | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 7.6K | #221 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 5.8K | #48 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 5.7K | #49 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 4.2K | #64 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 4.1K | #133 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 3.8K | #245 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 3.8K | #245 |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2019 | — | #249 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Ivanka mean, and where does it come from?
- From Czech Ivanka, from Ivana + -ka, q.v. Doublet of Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna. Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- What are other forms of the name Ivanka?
- In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Janet are forms of the same name in other languages; Ivka is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Ivana.
- How do you pronounce Ivanka?
- A machine transcription gives /i˨˦ʋaŋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ivanka a male or female name?
- Ivanka 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 Ivanka have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Иванка, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ivanka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivanka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 252 people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ivanka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 16,804 people named Ivanka in 2021, about 1 in 252 residents.
- How common is Ivanka compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Ivanka is the 24th most common given name of 22,906 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/ivankaThe 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, “Ivanka” — the 24th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.