Hankó
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/hɑnko/(machine-generated) Hungarian · model-generated
Hankó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country: 902 people, counted by JÚĽŠ SAV in 1995. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy szlovák családnév.
- SKSlovakia1 in 6K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 29K
- NONorway1 in 342K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
902 people, 1995
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 Hanko in SK Slovakia, US United States, CZ Czechia and 1 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.
How to pronounce Hankó
- Hungarian:/hɑnko/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Slovak:/haŋkoː/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy szlovák családnév. Eredete: Előzménye a bibliai héber eredetű és ’Isten kegyelmes’ jelentésű @njwhy [Yeh hoh ch™h n™hn (Jehoh™n™n)] vagy az ugyanolyan jelentésű @njwy [Yoch ch™h n™hn (Johanán)] név, mely a latin Johannes alakon keresztül terjedt el a keresztény világban, így a szlovákban is. Nagyon sok olyan nyelvben, amelyben nem az első szótagon van a hangsúly, csonkult (és rövidült is) Han formára. Ez a magyar és szlovák névkincsbe kerülve is fölvehette a -ko ~ -kó kicsinyítő képzőt, s előbb egyéni, majd ebből apai családnévvé vált. Jelentése tehát ’Hankó ~ Hanko nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’. Elterjedtsége: Mivel a nyelvterület északi részén, Nógrád, Heves, Borsod megyében és szlovákok által alapított településeken (Békéscsabán, Nyíregyházán és környékén) gyakoribb, nagyobb arányú lehet a szlovákban alakult nevek száma, de azt, hogy az egyes nevek melyik nyelvben alakultak ki, csak családtörténeti vizsgálatok dönthetik el.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hankó is found
(measured from records)Hankó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | #489 | 902 | 1 in 6K | 902 | Hanko | 40 |
| US United States | — | 678 | 1 in 491K | 751 | Hanko | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 363 | 1 in 29K | 363 | Hanko | 28 |
| PL Poland | — | 107 | 1 in 358K | 60 | Hanko | 18 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 22 | 1 in 785K | 22 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
902 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995. 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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Béla Hankób. 1886HUHungarian zoologist (1886–1959)
- Mátyás HankóHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
- Teréz HankóHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Hankó?
- It depends on the language: in Hungarian /hɑnko/; in Slovak /haŋkoː/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Hankó mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, magyar vagy szlovák családnév.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hankó?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 902 people named Hankó, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hanko. After it come United States, Czechia, Poland and Netherlands; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Hankó most common?
- Hankó is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hankó?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 902 people named Hankó in 1995, about 1 in 6.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hankó compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Hankó is the 489th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hank%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, “Hankó” — the 489th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.