Cinko

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/θinko/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated

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Cinko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • HRCroatia1 in 184K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 396K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 1.3Mfew records

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.

United States (measured from records)

175 people, 2010

Record sources
96 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 184K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

Locally spelled Çinko in AT Austria.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Cinko 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 Cinko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1751 in 1.9M175Cinko96
IN India≈99 est.≈1 in 15M—Cinko3
DE Germany≈65 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Cinko19
TR Türkiye≈45 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Cinko4
CZ Czechia271 in 396K27——
HR Croatia231 in 184K23——
AT Austria≈5 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Çinko4

175 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)

Cinko is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Dominican Republic, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Çinko, Cínkó

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Çinko, Çinkö

  • Czech surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Çinko, Činko

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United Kingdom, Cyprus

    Also written Çinko, Çinkö

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian

    Also written Činko, Çinko

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Çinko

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Çinko, Činko

16 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)

Cinko is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dlm, alternative spelling of cinco (“bedbug”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, genitive singular of ci̇̀nkas

    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)
FormalDear Cinko,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cinko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010175#102,688
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020167#111,996
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000150#109,328
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—27#44,166
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—27#13,911
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Cinko?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /θinko/; in Turkish /d͡ʒinko/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Cinko have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 175 people named Cinko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cinko.
Where is Cinko most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cinko is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 184 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cinko?
In the United States, the national register counted 175 people named Cinko in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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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, “Cinko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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