Brinke

surname · Latin script

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

/brɪnkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 186K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States≈1 in 2.4M
  • DEGermany≈1 in 140K

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.

Germany (inferred from the name graph)

≈570 people, est.

Sources
80 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 140K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, 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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Brinke 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 Brinke is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—≈570 est.≈1 in 140K—Brinke63
US United States—≈140 est.≈1 in 2.4MlistedBrinke80
NL Netherlands#809931 in 186K93Brinke66
CA Canada—≈35 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Brinke27
AU Australia—≈13 est.≈1 in 2M—Brinke20
AT Austria—≈4 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Brinke7

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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Brinke is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Netherlands, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Briņķe

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Netherlands

    Also written Briņķe

34 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Brinke 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 enm, The coastline or shoreline; the place where land meets sea.

    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.

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalGeachte heer/mevrouw Brinke,Dear Brinke, (English)
InformalGeachte heer/mevrouw Brinke,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Brinke
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200793#20,163
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

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 Brinke?
A machine transcription gives /brɪnkə/ (IPA) for Dutch.
In which country does Brinke have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 572 people named Brinke in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled brinke.
How common is the name Brinke?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 93 people named Brinke in 2007, about 1 in 186 thousand residents.
How common is Brinke compared with other names?
In the Netherlands, Brinke is the 809th most common surname of 284,143 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, “Brinke” — the 809th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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