Zanko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zæŋkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zanko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 36Kas Занько(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 137Kas Занько
- MKNorth Macedonia≈1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Zanko itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 114 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 named Занько, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
North Macedonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Занько in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more and Zańko in PL Poland.
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
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)Zanko 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Занько | 29 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 137K | — | Занько | 114 |
| TW Taiwan | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Занько | 1 |
| BY Belarus | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Занько | 14 |
| PL Poland | 489 | 1 in 78K | 245 | Zańko | 19 |
| HR Croatia | 297 | 1 in 14K | 297 | — | — |
| MK North Macedonia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 11 | — | — |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)Zanko is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Zanko Liba, servant. 1552.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Kurdish, university
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( V-gip ap. Elexp Berg ; Lcc , Lar → H ). Zanco. "Çanco" Lcc . "Zanco, zancos de palo, que son piernas de palo horquilladas, es del bascuence zurezko zankoak " Lar . " Asko ibiltzen giñan zankuekin jolasian " Elexp Berg. Cf. zango. .
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, (Quedar, etc.) paralizado. Hura ere apheza zela erran diotalarik, zanko gelditu zait, papoan ukaldi zonbait eman banako bezala . Othoizlari 13 (1957) 121.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)- Tamás Zankob. 1931FRFrench artist
- Denis Zankob. 1964FRFrench association football player and manager
- Vsevolod Zankob. 1995RURussian swimmer
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 101 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 101 | #29,863 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 90 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 90 | #32,325 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 15 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 11 | #29,908 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Zanko?
- A machine transcription gives /zæŋkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zanko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Занько in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zanko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 489 people named Zanko in 2026, about 1 in 78 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zanko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zankoThe 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, “Zanko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.