Tonka

given name · Latin script

Meaning: tdmkfor toys

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

Tonka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 6K
  • SISlovenia1 in 33K

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 Tonka 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.

Croatia (measured from records)

2,448 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
49 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TonkaLatin(measured from records)
ТонкаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

tdmkfor toys

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tonka 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 Tonka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#3212,4481 in 1.7K2.6KTonka49
BG Bulgaria#925≈1,200 est.≈1 in 6K—Tonka45
CL Chile—≈270 est.≈1 in 69K1——
US United States—1451 in 2.3M92Tonka44
DE Germany—≈100 est.≈1 in 770Klisted——
SI Slovenia—641 in 33K64Tonka5
MK North Macedonia—36as Тонка1 in 59K36—1

2,448 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

Tonka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States

    Also written Toenka, Tönka

  • Ukrainian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Тонка, Тонька

47 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)

Tonka is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., tschechische und slowe­ nische Koseform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, A flavoring or fragrance used in foodstuffs and derived from the tonka bean.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, Plg. Tonkis (žr.). Su priesaga -k- iš Tonjs, Tonas (žr.) ar pan. Plg. vok. Thonke : Antonius (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 169), brus. Tonbka : Anmon (M. Bapsina, 1982, c. 31), tus. ToubKa : Aumon (H. Ilerposckuū, 1966, c. 366). Plg. dar Tanktinas (žr.). TONK.ĖVIČIUS Brb, Jnšk 2, Pmp 3, Pn, Rk, Sič (9) — žr. Tėnka.

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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)

18001850190019502000Tonka Obretenova, b. 1812Tonka Petrova, b. 1947Toni Dacheva, b. 1967Tonka Wojahn, b. 1975Tonka Tomicic, b. 1976

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 40 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Tonka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

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 Tonka mean, and where does it come from?
tdmkfor toys Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
Is Tonka a male or female name?
Tonka is a female 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.
What are other forms of the name Tonka?
In the etymology graph, Antonia, Tonya and Toni are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Antonija.
In which country does Tonka have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 2.4 thousand people named Tonka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonka.
Where is Tonka most common?
Tonka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tonka?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,448 people named Tonka in 2021, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Tonka compared with other names?
In Croatia, Tonka is the 321st most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Tonka” — the 321st most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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