Yoka

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/joka/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated

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Yoka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 163 people, counted by Instate.

  • BEBelgium1 in 733K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M
  • CZCzechia1 in 3.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

India (measured from records)

163 people

Record sources
76 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 733K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Yoka

  • Turkish:/joka/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where the surname Yoka is found

(measured from records)

Yoka 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 Yoka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1631 in 8.1M163Yoka7
BE Belgium161 in 733K16Yoka8
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—3
CZ Czechia31 in 3.6M3——
PL Poland21 in 19M2——

163 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Yoka is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Congo - Kinshasa, Belgium, Congo - Brazzaville

    Also written Ÿoka

  • Spanish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Congo - Kinshasa, United States, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yo-Ka, Yökä, Ŷṍkå, Ÿökä, Yôkå

  • Turkish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Ýòķa, Yőķà

  • Japanese surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, India, Türkiye

    Also written Yōka, Yôka, Yökä, Ÿõkâ

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Yōkā

35 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)

Yoka is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lingala, alternative spelling of -yóka (“to hear, understand”)

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

  • In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of よか

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

  • In cic, to be imprisoned

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

  • In lue, intestinal worm

    as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003

  • In ktu, to burn

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

  • In umb, roast ; ford

    as a wordVocabulary of the Umbundu Language

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)

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)
Formalالسيدة Yoka المحترمة،Dear Ms. Yoka, (English)
Informalمرحباً Yoka،Hi Yoka, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Yoka?
In Turkish /joka/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Yoka?
In India, the national register counted about 163 people named Yoka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yoka. After it come Belgium, Switzerland, Czechia and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Yoka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yoka is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 733 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Yoka?
In India, the national register counted 163 people named Yoka, about 1 in 8.1 million 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, “Yoka” — ranked 20479th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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