Kinka

surname · Latin script

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 479K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 669K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

80 people, 2026

Sources
6 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 479K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Lithuanian

Galbūt pravardinė, sietina su liet. kinka „koja (nuo liemens iki pėdos), kenklė; blauzda; kelio linkmuo; koja aukščiau kelio, šlaunis; liesas, sudžiūvęs žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ V 813).

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kinka 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 Kinka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland801 in 479K44——
CZ Czechia161 in 669K16——
CH Switzerland31 in 2.8M3—1
IN India——1Kinka6
CL Chile——1——

80 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)

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

  • Ukrainian surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Polish, Russian

    Also written Кінка, Кинька, Кінька, Кинка

  • Bulgarian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Кинка

26 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)

Kinka 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 Icelandic, Used only in set phrases

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

  • In Lithuanian, Galbūt pravardinė, sietina su liet. kinka „koja (nuo liemens iki pėdos), kenklė; blauzda; kelio linkmuo; koja aukščiau kelio, šlaunis; liesas, sudžiūvęs žmogus ar gyvulys“ (LKŽ V 813).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Ms Kinka,
InformalHi Kinka,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Kinka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202644—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—44#54,740
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202636—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—36#61,878
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—16#60,510
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370

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 Kinka?
A machine transcription gives /kɪnkə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kinka have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 80 people named Kinka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kinka most common?
Kinka is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 479 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kinka?
In Poland, the national register counted 80 people named Kinka in 2026, about 1 in 479 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, “Kinka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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