Pohanka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pohanka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: buckwheat.
- CZCzechia1 in 15K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 30K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.5M
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
692 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
buckwheat
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pohanka 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.
692 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
- Josef Pohankab. 1910ATHolocaust victim (born 1910)
- Milan Pohankab. 1929CZCzech politician and judge (1929–2002)
- Ragnhild Pohankab. 1932SESwedish politician
- Michal Pohankab. 1969CZCzech physician and politician
- Marius PohankaRORomanian politician from Naidăș, Caraș-Severin County
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 10 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 692 | #2,103 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 692 | #2,047 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 180 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #283,582 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #141,287 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Pohanka mean, and where does it come from?
- buckwheat Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pohanka have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 692 people named Pohanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pohanka.
- Where is Pohanka most common?
- Pohanka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 15 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pohanka?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 692 people named Pohanka, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pohankaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pohanka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.