Belko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: vocative singular of belka
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Belko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Sint Maarten it is the 46th most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 34K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 68K
- SISlovenia1 in 210K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
446 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sint Maarten, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)vocative singular of belka
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Belko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 446 | 1 in 746K | 486 | Belko | 139 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 157 | 1 in 68K | 157 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 125 | 1 in 34K | 125 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 124 | 1 in 309K | 67 | — | — |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 289K | — | Belko | 8 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Belko | 14 |
| SX Sint Maarten | #46 | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Belko | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10 | 1 in 210K | 10 | — | 1 |
446 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Belko 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, var of Belka.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In se, stump, block
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Árpád Belkob. 1910FRFrench association football player
- Jozef Belkob. 1929Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak parliament, manager and Slovak nation politician
- Matěj Belkob. 1991CZCzech musician
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 486 | #47,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 458 | #44,273 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 446 | #47,521 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 157 | #10,799 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 157 | #6,267 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 125 | #6,541 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 101 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 67 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 67 | #40,098 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 57 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 57 | #45,729 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 10 | #19,585 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Belko mean, and where does it come from?
- vocative singular of belka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Belko have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 446 people named Belko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belko.
- How common is the name Belko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 446 people named Belko in 2010, about 1 in 746 thousand residents.
- How common is Belko compared with other names?
- In Sint Maarten, Belko is the 46th most common surname of 335 surnames 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/belkoThe 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, “Belko” — the 46th most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.