Gonka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2010
/ɠonka/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Gonka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 175K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3M
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.1Mfew records
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 175K (inferred from the name graph)
219 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gonka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 219 | 1 in 175K | 111 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 111 | 1 in 3M | 111 | Gonka | 58 |
| DE Germany | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Gonka | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Gonka | 4 |
| IL Israel | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Gonka | 1 |
219 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gonka 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.
In Latvian, Ātrumsacīkstes (autosportā, velosportā u. tml.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 107 | #142,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Gonka?
- In Swahili /ɠonka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Gonka have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 219 people named Gonka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gonka most common?
- Gonka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 175 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gonka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 219 people named Gonka in 2026, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Gonka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gonkaThe 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, “Gonka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.