Tsoka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Unlucky
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/tsoka/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Tsoka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 58Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 410Kfew records
- CZCzechia1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Zimbabwe, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)Unlucky.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The African book of names
Where the surname Tsoka is found
(measured from records)Tsoka 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.
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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tsoka is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Nyanja, bad luck, misfortune
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hausa, muscle
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tsoka mean, and where does it come from?
- Unlucky. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Tsoka?
- In Swahili /tsoka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Tsoka?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Tsoka in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tsoka. After it come Zimbabwe, Malawi, Greece and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Tsoka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 25 people named Tsoka in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Tsoka compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Tsoka is the 938th most common surname of 6,972 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tsoka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tsokaThe 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, “Tsoka” — the 938th most common surname in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.