Blinks
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Blinks is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ghana than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 47K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 86K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ghana (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blinks 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GH Ghana | #726 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Blinks | 15 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Blinks | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Blinks | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Blinks | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Blinks | 30 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Blinks | 12 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Blinks 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 Swedish, indefinite genitive singular of blink
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Blinks mean, and where does it come from?
- a herbaceous annual plant of species Montia fontana, in the family Montiaceae, formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Blinks have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Blinks in Ghana, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blinks.
- How common is the name Blinks?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,600 people in Ghana have Blinks as their first surname, about 1 in 11 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Blinks compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Blinks is the 726th most common surname of 36,883 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/blinksThe 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, “Blinks” — the 726th most common surname in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.