Hantke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hantkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hantke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 309K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
- CZCzechia1 in 669K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 309K (inferred from the name graph)
191 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Hantke 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 | 191 | 1 in 1.7M | 197 | Hantke | 4 |
| PL Poland | 124 | 1 in 309K | 64 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 37 | 1 in 5.7M | 37 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 16 | 1 in 669K | 16 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
191 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
- Arthur Menachem Hantkeb. 1874ILIsraeli jurist
- Theodore Hantkeb. 1875AUcricketer (1875-1931)
- Otto Hantkeb. 1907PLNazi German military officer, war criminal, and commandant of the Budzyn labor camp (1907–1986)
- René Hantkeb. 1925CHSwiss paleobotanist and professor at ETH Zurich
- Ari Hantkeb. 1943DEGerman architect, art director for film and television, and artist (b.1943)
- Holger Hantkeb. 1951DEGerman composer
- Andreas Hantkeb. 1956DEGerman composer
- Steffen Hantkeb. 1962DEGerman academic, critic and editor (1962-)
- Joana Hantkeb. 2002DEGerman association football player
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 197 | #87,729 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 191 | #95,545 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 176 | #107,521 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #42,108 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 60 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 60 | #43,648 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37 | #129,205 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 16 | #60,811 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #29,215 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Hantke?
- A machine transcription gives /hantkə/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Hantke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 191 people named Hantke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hantke.
- Where is Hantke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hantke is densest in Poland — about 1 in 309 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hantke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 191 people named Hantke in 2010, about 1 in 1.7 million residents.
What do you want to know about Hantke?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hantkeThe 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, “Hantke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.