Sonka

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sənkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sonka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 51K
  • PLPoland1 in 766K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

211 people

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Sonka 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.

Where Sonka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2111 in 51K211——
US United States1891 in 1.8M189Sonka113
PL Poland501 in 766K26—1
AR Argentina101 in 4.5M10——
SK Slovakia31 in 1.8M3——

211 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sonka is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Şonka

  • Spanish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Colombia, Chile

    Also written Soñka

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šonka

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Сонка, Šonka

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sonka 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 Hungarian, ham (meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food)

    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)

  • Rita Sonkaresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-1187-9781

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)

FormalDear Ms Sonka,
InformalHi Sonka,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 12 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Sonka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010189#96,368
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000181#93,841
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020167#111,996
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202626—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—26#77,256
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202624—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—24#81,083
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—10—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

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 Sonka?
A machine transcription gives /sənkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sonka have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 211 people named Sonka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Sonka most common?
Sonka is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Sonka?
In Czechia, the national register counted 211 people named Sonka, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.

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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, “Sonka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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