hOeNKE
surname · Latin script
/hoənk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
hOeNKE is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Japan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2Mas Honke(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 260K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 934K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than hOeNKE itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Japan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 260K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 named Honke, est.
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Honke in US United States, DE Germany, CA Canada 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.
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)
hOeNKE 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 293K | listed | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 228K | — | Honke | 57 |
| US United States | 164as Honke | 1 in 2M | 176 | Honke | 102 |
| CA Canada | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 490K | — | Honke | 32 |
| BR Brazil | 70as Honke | 1 in 3M | 70 | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 928K | — | Honke | 1 |
| RS Serbia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | hOeNKE | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 9 | 1 in 934K | 9 | hOeNKE | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fabienne Hoenkeb. 2004CHSwiss sprinter (born 2004)
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 119 | #131,366 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 111 | #148,347 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 102 | #154,755 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 9 | #65,843 |
| 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 hOeNKE?
- A machine transcription gives /hoənk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does hOeNKE have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 428 people named Honke in Japan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name hOeNKE?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 9 people named hOeNKE in 2024, about 1 in 934 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoenkeThe 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, “hOeNKE”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.