Hinckley
loc · Latin script
Meaning: person from Hinckley, Leicestershire; from ‘Hynca’s glade’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Hinckley is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)person from Hinckley, Leicestershire; from ‘Hynca’s glade’
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hinckley counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.2K | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | — | 1 | — |
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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Hinckley is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Hinckley (Leics); first attested Anfred de Hinkelai 1176 P (Leicestershire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, so called from the Old English byname Hynca (a derivative of Hun ‘bear-cub’) + Old English leak ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, so called from the OE byname Hynca (a derivative of Hiin ‘Bear-cub’) + OE leah wood, clearing. Vars.: Hinkley, Hingley, Hinsley. Hillcoat see Ellis
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, so called from the OE byname Hynca (a derivative of Hun ‘Bear-cub’) + OE leak wood, clearing. Vars.: Hinkley, Hingley, Hinsley.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, John, Jr., US convict, attempted
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)- Thomas Hewes Hinckleyb. 1813USAmerican painter (1813–1896)
- Isaac Hinckleyb. 1815USAmerican businessman
- Lyman G. Hinckleyb. 1832USAmerican politician
- Richard Hinckley Allenb. 1838USAmerican naturalist (1838–1908)
- Robert C. Hinckleyb. 1853USAmerican painter (1853–1941)
- Erwin Hinckley Barbourb. 1856USAmerican paleontologist
- Bryant S. Hinckleyb. 1867USAmerican academic
- L. Stewart Hinckleyb. 1902USAmerican politician
- Gordon B. Hinckleyb. 1910USPresident of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1910–2008)
- John Hinckleyb. 1955USattempted assassin of Ronald Reagan (born 1955)
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).
Evidence
(measured from records)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.2K | #7,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4K | #7,853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,817 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 18 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #262,407 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #13,823 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #197,207 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Hinckley mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Hinckley, Leicestershire; from ‘Hynca’s glade’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Hinckley have the most bearers?
- Hinckley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Hinckley?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hinckleyThe 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, “Hinckley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.