Zonka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zonka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 235K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 338K
- IEIreland≈1 in 545K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 45 (measured from records)
- 1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zonka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Zonka | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Zonka | 22 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 9.7M | listed | Zonka | 45 |
| HR Croatia | 18 | 1 in 235K | 18 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 545K | — | Zonka | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #24,132 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- In which country does Zonka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 301 people named Zonka in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zonka.
- Where is Zonka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zonka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 235 thousand people — even though Congo - Kinshasa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zonka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 18 people named Zonka in 2021, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zonkaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Zonka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.