Lunke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: neuter singular of lunken
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Lunke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 42K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- DEGermany≈1 in 832K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 42K (inferred from the name graph)
130 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
neuter singular of lunken
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lunke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 130 | 1 in 42K | 130 | Lunke | 7 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Lunke | 50 |
| DE Germany | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 832K | — | Lunke | 34 |
| KE Kenya | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 935K | — | Lunke | 4 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Lunke | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | Lunke | 3 |
130 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lunke 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 German, Likely nickname from mnd. lunink ‘Sperling’; Lunkenbein ‘lame leg’ is unclear. Bearers: Lunk 202, Lunke 54, Lunkenbein 86.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Theodor Lunkeb. 1878CHSchaffhausen politician (1878-1954)
- Hilary Lunkeb. 1979USprofessional golfer
- Sindre Skjøstad Lunkeb. 1993NONorwegian cyclist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 130 | #12,124 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Lunke mean, and where does it come from?
- neuter singular of lunken Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lunke have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 130 people named Lunke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lunke.
- Where is Lunke most common?
- Lunke is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 42 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lunke?
- In Norway, the national register counted 130 people named Lunke, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lunkeThe 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, “Lunke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.