Nanke
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nanke is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 161K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.2M
- CNChina≈1 in 5.8M
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
≈240 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Nanke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Nanke | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | 107 | 1 in 161K | 107 | Nanke | 3 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 37M | 140 | Nanke | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 6 | Nanke | 16 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Nankeb. 1768CZCzech violin maker, composer, organist and singer
- Charles Nankeb. 1847DKDanish politician
- Czesław Nankeb. 1883PLPolish historian (1883–1950)
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 140 | #123,064 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 132 | #133,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 130 | #122,534 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #232,963 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Nanke?
- A machine transcription gives /nəŋk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Nanke a male or female name?
- Nanke is a male 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 Nanke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 240 people named Nanke in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nanke.
- Where is Nanke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nanke is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 161 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nanke?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 107 people named Nanke, about 1 in 161 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/nankeThe 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, “Nanke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.