Tonke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: s. Thomas Tonn | ar, er: s
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tɔŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tonke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 484K(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 2.6M
- INIndia1 in 51M
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 39 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 484K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)s. Thomas Tonn | ar, er: s. Donner
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tonke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 484K | listed | Tonke | 39 |
| IN India | 26 | 1 in 51M | 26 | Tonke | 3 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 8 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 162M | — | Tonke | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 52 | — | 5 |
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: the deutsche-namenkunde-gottschald-1982 register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)- Laura Tonkeb. 1974DEGerman actress
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 26 | #67,477 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18 | #2,923 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #159,038 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #171,123 |
| DE Germany | Deutsche Namenkunde (Gottschald, 1982) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Tonke come from?
- s. Thomas Tonn | ar, er: s. Donner Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Tonke?
- A machine transcription gives /tɔŋkə/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Tonke mean?
- Recorded meaning: s. Thomas Tonn | ar, er: s.
- In which country does Tonke have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 people named Tonke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tonke.
- How common is the name Tonke?
- In India, the national register counted 26 people named Tonke, about 1 in 51 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tonkeThe 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, “Tonke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.