Yanka

given name · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 116K(measured from records)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 259K
  • CLChile≈1 in 270K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,827 people, 2022

Sources
73 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 116K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yanka 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 Yanka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,8271 in 116K1.8KYanka59
CO Colombia≈110 est.≈1 in 454K1Yanka9
ES Spain871 in 575K87Yanka12
US United States≈71 est.≈1 in 4.7MlistedYanka73
NG Nigeria≈71 est.≈1 in 3M—Yanka6
CL Chile≈67 est.≈1 in 270K1Yanka18
DO Dominican Republic≈40 est.≈1 in 259K—Yanka8
NO Norway≈12 est.≈1 in 450K34——

1,827 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the co-datosgov-candidates register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Yanka is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name46 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Slovakia, Russia, Brazil

    Languages: Bulgarian, Slovak, Russian

    Also written Janka, Янка, Ianka, I︠A︡nka, 'Janka

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Indonesia, United States

    Also written Ÿañká

  • English given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, Swahili, Amharic

    Also written Yinka, ยันกา, 'Yinka, Unika, Yunika

42 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Janka Lučyna, b. 1851Yanka Kupala, b. 1882Janka Maŭr, b. 1883Janka Marazovič, b. 1895Janka Bryl, b. 1917Yanka Nikolova, b. 1922Jan Zaprudnik, b. 1926Yanka Rupkina, b. 1938Yanka Dyagileva, b. 1966
  • Janka Lučynab. 1851BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian translator and poet (1851-1897)
  • Yanka Kupalab. 1882BYBelarusian writer (1882–1942)
  • Janka Maŭrb. 1883BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1883–1971)
  • Janka Marazovičb. 1895BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian journalist, writer, editor, poet, artist, publisher (1895-1937)
  • Janka Brylb. 1917BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian writer (1917–2006)
  • Yanka Nikolovab. 1922BGBulgarian scientist
  • Jan Zaprudnikb. 1926USnot in their usual nameAmerican/Belarusian historian
  • Yanka Rupkinab. 1938BGBulgarian folk singer
  • Yanka Dyagilevab. 1966RUSoviet poet and singer-songwriter (1966-1991)
  • Yanka HekimovaBGBulgarian organist

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 Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Yanka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—63#89,008
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 are other forms of the name Yanka?
In the etymology graph, Jean, Jane and Joan are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Yanka?
A machine transcription gives /jəŋkə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
Is Yanka a male or female name?
Yanka 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.
In which country does Yanka have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Yanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yanka.
Where is Yanka most common?
Yanka is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 116 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Yanka?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,827 people named Yanka in 2022, about 1 in 116 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, “Yanka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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