Yunker

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Yunker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 176K(measured from records)
  • BZBelize≈1 in 24K
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 62K

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)

1,891 people, 2010

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

Belize, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Yunker 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 Yunker is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1,8911 in 176K2KYunker260
DZ Algeria—≈300 est.≈1 in 141K—Yunker1
EG Egypt—≈270 est.≈1 in 388K—Yunker1
GB United Kingdom—≈210 est.≈1 in 308K—Yunker6
IT Italy—≈190 est.≈1 in 327K—Yunker2
CH Switzerland—≈140 est.≈1 in 62K—Yunker1
NL Netherlands—≈81 est.≈1 in 213K—Yunker2
BZ Belize#701≈17 est.≈1 in 24K—Yunker1

1,891 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Yunker is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Юнкер, Junker, Juncker, Iunker

32 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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Yunker
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002K#13,989
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.9K#15,483
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.9K#15,207
US United Stateswru 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

In which country does Yunker have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Yunker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yunker.
How common is the name Yunker?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,891 people named Yunker in 2010, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
How common is Yunker compared with other names?
In Belize, Yunker is the 701st most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Yunker” — the 701st most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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