Ninka

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ninka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 176K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 391K
  • FIFinland1 in 507K

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.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈100 people, est.

Sources
33 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 176K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ninka 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 Ninka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia≈100 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Ninka12
US United States≈25 est.≈1 in 13M—Ninka33
HR Croatia241 in 176K24——
DK Denmark151 in 391K15——
NL Netherlands141 in 1.2M14Ninka6
FI Finland111 in 507K30—1
BE Belgium≈6 est.≈1 in 2.1M—Ninka2

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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Ninka is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Croatia, United States, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Нинка

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Ninká, Niňka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Niňka

  • Georgian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia, United States

    Also written Ninkã

24 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)

Ninka 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 Russian, "stranger."

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

  • In jpx-pro, bitter

    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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Ninka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#13,143
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#13,615
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202124#3,418
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202120—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—15#5,992
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—14#18,281
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—11—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—11#27,267

Reference works 2

  • 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

Is Ninka a male or female name?
Ninka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ninka have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 101 people named Ninka in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ninka.
Where is Ninka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ninka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 176 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ninka?
In Croatia, the national register counted 24 people named Ninka in 2021, about 1 in 176 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, “Ninka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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