Ianka
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jɐ̃kɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ianka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.2Kas Янка(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 44Kas Ianca
- RURussia≈1 in 327Kas Янка
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 Ianka 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)
4,807 named Ianca, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Janka in SK Slovakia, CZ Czechia, SI Slovenia, Янка in RU Russia, BY Belarus and Yanka in BG Bulgaria.
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)
Ianka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 4,807as Ianca | 1 in 44K | 5.9K | Ianka | 55 |
| BG Bulgaria | #210 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Yanka | 51 |
| CZ Czechia | #690 | 2,012as Janka | 1 in 5.3K | 2K | Janka | 41 |
| BY Belarus | #400 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 51 | Янка | 6 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 327K | — | Янка | 69 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 193as Јанка | 1 in 11K | 193 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 111as Janka | 1 in 19K | 111 | Janka | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 5 | Ianka | 5 |
| SK Slovakia | #108 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | Janka | 98 |
4,807 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022, counting the spelling ianca. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); MVČR — living population register 2017; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). 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)
Ianka 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 Russian, var of Anna.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Janka Lučynab. 1851BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian translator and poet (1851-1897)
- Yanka Kupalab. 1882BYBelarusian writer (1882–1942)
- Janka Maŭrb. 1883BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1883–1971)
- Janka Marazovičb. 1895BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian journalist, writer, editor, poet, artist, publisher (1895-1937)
- Janka Brylb. 1917BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1917–2006)
- Yanka Nikolovab. 1922BGBulgarian scientist
- Jan Zaprudnikb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican/Belarusian historian
- Yanka Dyagilevab. 1966RUSoviet poet and singer-songwriter (1966-1991)
- Ianka Fleerackersb. 1971BEBelgian actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 929 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 921 | #8,706 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 902 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 846 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 811 | #5,279 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 807 | #10,549 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 683 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1990 | 673 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2000 | 163 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 56 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 27 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Ianka?
- A machine transcription gives /jɐ̃kɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Ianka a male or female name?
- Ianka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ianka have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Ianca, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ianka?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,807 people named Ianca in 2022, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Ianka compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Ianka is the 108th most common given name of 9,943 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ianka?
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/iankaThe 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, “Ianka” — the 108th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.