Dankó
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/dɑnko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dankó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése. Lehet a bibliai héber eredetű, ’(Isten) megítélt’ jelentésű @d [D™hn (D™n)] névből is magyarázni.
- USUnited States1 in 79K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 2.6K
- CZCzechia1 in 17K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 307 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
4,237 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Danko in US United States, HU Hungary, PL Poland and 2 more.
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)Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése. Lehet a bibliai héber eredetű, ’(Isten) megítélt’ jelentésű @d [D™hn (D™n)] névből is magyarázni. Gyakori előfordulása miatt azonban sokkal valószínűbb a Martyrologium Romanumba (a Római Katolikus Egyház szenteket és boldogokat fölsoroló könyvébe) is fölvett, szintén bibliai héber eredetű és ’Isten az én bírám’ jelentésű laynd [D™h nee ehl (D™niël)] keresztnevet keresni a családnévben. A Dániel névnek egy szótagra rövidült Dan alakjához a -kó kicsinyítő képző járult, amely először egyéni, majd minden végződés nélkül apai családnév lett ’Dankó nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’ jelentéssel. Elterjedtsége: A nyelvterület keleti felében gyakoribb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dankó 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 | — | 4,237 | 1 in 79K | 4.2K | Danko | 307 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 2,083 | 1 in 2.6K | 2.1K | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 944 | 1 in 41K | 482 | Danko | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Danko | 16 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 641 | 1 in 17K | 641 | — | 1 |
| HU Hungary | #865 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Danko | 62 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 85 | 1 in 25K | 85 | — | 1 |
| BZ Belize | #616 | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Danko | 1 |
4,237 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- József Károly Dankób. 1829HUHungarian cleric and theologian writer (1829–1895)
- Pista Dankób. 1858HUHungarian musician and composer (1858–1903)
- Ödön Dankób. 1889HUHungarian illustrator (1889-1958)
- Sándor Dankób. 1922HUHungarian astronomer
- László Dankób. 1939HUHungarian Roman-Catholic rchbishop (1939-1999)
- Klára Dankób. 1957HUHungarian actress
- Béla Dankób. 1969HUHungarian politician
- István Dankób. 1982HUHungarian actor
- Ferenc DankóHUHungarian martial arts tariner
- Titanilla DankóHUHungarian researcher
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 20 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #176,598 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #133,213 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #217,656 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- How do you pronounce Dankó?
- A machine transcription gives /dɑnko/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Dankó mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar családnév. Eredete: Két név egybeesése. Lehet a bibliai héber eredetű, ’(Isten) megítélt’ jelentésű @d [D™hn (D™n)] névből is magyarázni.
- In which country does Dankó have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.2 thousand people named Dankó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled danko.
- Where is Dankó most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dankó is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 2.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Dankó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,237 people named Dankó in 2010, about 1 in 79 thousand residents.
- How common is Dankó compared with other names?
- In Belize, Dankó is the 616th most common surname of 11,408 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/dank%C3%B3The 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, “Dankó” — the 616th most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.