Ginko

surname · Latin script

Meaning: alternative spelling of ginkgo (“ginkgo”) (Ginkgo biloba)

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 284K(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 1.8M

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.

Poland (measured from records)

135 people, 2026

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 284K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

alternative spelling of ginkgo (“ginkgo”) (Ginkgo biloba)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ginko 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 Ginko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1351 in 284K70Ginko16
BR Brazil1121 in 1.9M112——
IT Italy≈36 est.≈1 in 1.8M1——
AR Argentina161 in 2.8M16——
EE Estonia≈2 est.≈1 in 701Klisted——

135 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

Ginko is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Giņko

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Ginkō

  • Russian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

    Also written Гинько, Гинко, Гінко, Giņko

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Giņko, Гинко

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Gińko

21 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)

Ginko 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 Russian, "young."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Ginko
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—112#58,162
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202670—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—70#38,892
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202665—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—65#41,579
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—16—

Reference works 4

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 Ginko mean, and where does it come from?
alternative spelling of ginkgo (“ginkgo”) (Ginkgo biloba) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Ginko?
A machine transcription gives /dʒŋkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Ginko have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 135 people named Ginko, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ginko.
Where is Ginko most common?
Ginko is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 284 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ginko?
In Poland, the national register counted 135 people named Ginko in 2026, about 1 in 284 thousand 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, “Ginko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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