Şanko

Name: Şanko: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şanko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common

USUnited States1 in 647K(measured from records)
HRCroatia1 in 23K
NONorway≈1 in 97K

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.

: China (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 177 (measured from records)
: 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Sanko

Locally spelled Sanko in US United States, IE Ireland, NO Norway and 2 more.

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.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şanko 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 Şanko is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
CN China	≈5,500 est.	≈1 in 253K	—	Sanko	1
US United States	514	1 in 647K	659	Sanko	177
PL Poland	334	1 in 115K	170	—	1
HR Croatia	182	1 in 23K	182	—	—
NG Nigeria	≈150 est.	≈1 in 1.4M	—	Sanko	5
NO Norway	≈56 est.	≈1 in 97K	—	Sanko	1
DK Denmark	40	1 in 147K	40	—	1
IE Ireland	≈32 est.	≈1 in 162K	—	Sanko	3

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 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

Swahili surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Canada, Kenya, United Kingdom
Also written Sanko

1 further group 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şanko under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Şanko have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named Şanko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sanko.
Where is Şanko most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şanko is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şanko?: In the United States, the national register counted 514 people named Şanko in 2010, about 1 in 647 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Şanko?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Fanko

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Şanko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)