Konke

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/koʊŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Konke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.7Mas Koenke(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 332K
  • PLPoland1 in 524K

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 Konke 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.

United States (measured from records)

196 named Koenke, 2010

Sources
112 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 332K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KoenkeLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Koenke in US United States, SG Singapore, IT Italy and 1 more and Könke in DE Germany.

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.

Sources 1

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Konke 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.

Where Konke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States196as Koenke1 in 1.7M196Koenke112
ZA South Africa≈170 est.≈1 in 332K—Konke9
DE Germany≈80 est.≈1 in 997K—Könke30
PL Poland731 in 524K38——
IT Italy≈32 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Koenke1
SG Singapore≈25 est.≈1 in 249K—Koenke1
BE Belgium≈13 est.≈1 in 929K—Koenke1

196 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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Konke is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Africa

    Also written Kôñké

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Chile

    Also written Könke

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Könke

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Konké

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Konke 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 Norwegian Nynorsk, to go bankrupt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Konke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000101#149,328
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202638—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—38#59,768
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202635—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—35#63,554
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Konke?
A machine transcription gives /koʊŋk/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Konke have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 196 people named Koenke, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Konke?
In Poland, the national register counted 73 people named Konke in 2026, about 1 in 524 thousand residents.

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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, “Konke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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