Bonka

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bənkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bonka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 7.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 260K
  • ISIceland1 in 351K

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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈920 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
40 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BonkaLatin(measured from records)
БонкаCyrillic(measured from records)

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bonka 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.

Where Bonka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#916≈920 est.≈1 in 7.6K—Bonka40
ES Spain—271 in 1.9M27Bonka7
RS Serbia—≈27 est.≈1 in 260K—Bonka6
IT Italy—≈26 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Bonka1
US United States—≈15 est.≈1 in 23MlistedBonka25
NL Netherlands—≈9 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Bonka4
IS Iceland—11 in 351K1——

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bonka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye, Estonia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Бонка, Бонька

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Bońka

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bonka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, only used in bonka bäver (“boink, bang”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Resns, tukls (par cilvēku)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Lithuanian, žr. Bdnkas,

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Bonka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Bonka?
A machine transcription gives /bənkə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
Is Bonka a male or female name?
Bonka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Bonka have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 923 people named Bonka in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bonka.
How common is the name Bonka?
In Spain, the national register counted 27 people named Bonka, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
How common is Bonka compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Bonka is the 916th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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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, “Bonka” — the 916th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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