Zuka
given name · Latin script
Meaning: the sun, dawn, morning
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zukə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zuka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 51K
- SISlovenia≈1 in 123K
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.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
the sun, dawn, morning
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zuka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Zuka | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 417K | — | Zuka | 13 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 79 | — | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2M | listed | Zuka | 6 |
| US United States | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Zuka | 41 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 123K | 30 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 588K | 324 | Zuka | 10 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 7 | — | 1 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Zuka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
To appear suddenly; to
as a nameThe African book of names
Famous, renowned.
as a nameThe African book of names
In ssf, purulent swelling under the skin; boil; wound
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Swahili, to emerge, appear
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, sixpence
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 324 | #4,059 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 30 | #10,691 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #173,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Zuka mean, and where does it come from?
- the sun, dawn, morning Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Zuka?
- A machine transcription gives /zukə/ (IPA) for Georgian.
- Is Zuka a male or female name?
- Zuka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Zuka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 378 people named Zuka in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zuka.
- How common is the name Zuka?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Zuka in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zuka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zukaThe 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, “Zuka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.