Yonke
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈjɑŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yonke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of German Jonke.
- USUnited States1 in 588K(measured from records)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 301K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 456K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 162 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 301K (inferred from the name graph)
566 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of German Jonke.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yonke 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 566 | 1 in 588K | 592 | Yonke | 162 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 456K | — | Yonke | 6 |
| DE Germany | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 985K | — | Yonke | 17 |
| IT Italy | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Yonke | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 893K | — | Yonke | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 301K | — | Yonke | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 577K | — | Yonke | 2 |
566 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)
Yonke is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, junk yard, scrapyard
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Thomas R. Yonkeb. 1939USU.S. entomologist (1939–1994)
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 592 | #35,860 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 566 | #38,948 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 563 | #41,648 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Yonke mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Jonke. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Yonke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈjɑŋk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Yonke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 566 people named Yonke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yonke.
- How common is the name Yonke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 566 people named Yonke in 2010, about 1 in 588 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yonkeThe 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, “Yonke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.