Monke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A monkey or ape
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/monke/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Monke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 270Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 583K
- DKDenmark1 in 652K
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 Monke 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mönke 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
(measured from records)A monkey or ape.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Monke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 273K | listed | Mönke | 41 |
| US United States | 158 | 1 in 2.1M | 197 | Monke | 97 |
| AR Argentina | 78 | 1 in 583K | 78 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 28 | 1 in 7.6M | 28 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Monke | 10 |
| SG Singapore | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 353K | — | Monke | 5 |
| DK Denmark | 9 | 1 in 652K | 9 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Monke | 1 |
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 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Monke 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 Swedish, blue bonnet, blue buttons, blue daisy, iron flower, sheep's-bit
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Anja Monkeb. 1977DEprofessional golfer
- Mads Emil Monkebadminton 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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 197 | #98,501 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 181 | #93,841 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 158 | #111,426 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 78 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28 | #156,028 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 9 | #43,031 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Monke mean, and where does it come from?
- A monkey or ape. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Monke?
- In Spanish /monke/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Monke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 people named Monke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mönke.
- How common is the name Monke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 158 people named Monke in 2010, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Monke?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monkeThe 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, “Monke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.