Chauke
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tʃauk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chauke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common surname.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 611(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia1 in 25M
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 3.2K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 611 (inferred from the name graph)
≈92,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chauke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | #25 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | — | Chauke | 95 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Chauke | 20 |
| BW Botswana | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | — | 54 | 1 in 25M | 54 | Chauke | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Chauke | 37 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Chauke | 5 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral 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)
Chauke 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.
A Tsonga clan name.
as a wordsanames.co.za — South African 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)
- Elias Chaukeb. 1972ZASouth African serial killer
- Hlomane ChaukeZASouth African politician
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 54 | #42,303 |
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
- How do you pronounce Chauke?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃauk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chauke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 92 thousand people named Chauke in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chauke.
- How common is the name Chauke?
- In India, the national register counted 54 people named Chauke, about 1 in 25 million residents.
- How common is Chauke compared with other names?
- In South Africa, Chauke is the 25th most common surname of 285,788 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/chaukeThe 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, “Chauke” — the 25th most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.