Shonka
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈʃɑŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shonka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 785K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 3.6Mas Шонька
- RURussia≈1 in 24Mas Шонька
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 Shonka 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 785K (inferred from the name graph)
424 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Шонька in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shonka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 424 | 1 in 785K | 426 | Shonka | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Шонька | 7 |
| RU Russia | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 24M | — | Шонька | 25 |
424 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Francis Rudolph Shonkab. 1906USAmerican physicist and inventor (1906–1970)
- J. Scott Shonkaactor
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 426 | #52,580 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 424 | #47,120 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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
- How do you pronounce Shonka?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɑŋkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shonka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 424 people named Shonka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shonka.
- Where is Shonka most common?
- Shonka is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 785 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shonka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 424 people named Shonka in 2010, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shonka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shonkaThe 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, “Shonka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.