Pinkas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Hebraic name, son of Eleazar and nephew of Aaron
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɪnkəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pinkas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 81st most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.2Kas פנחס(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 1.4Kas פנחס
- RORomania≈1 in 3.9Kas פנחס
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pinkas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,300 named פנחס, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled פנחס in IL Israel, MA Morocco, US United States and 3 more, פינחס in LY Libya and Pinchas in AF Afghanistan.
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)
Hebraic name, son of Eleazar and nephew of Aaron.
Sources 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pinkas 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #106 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 4.1K | פנחס | 63 |
| RO Romania | #294 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | פנחס | 5 |
| MA Morocco | #536 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | פנחס | 4 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Pinchas | 3 |
| QA Qatar | #81 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | פנחס | 1 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | פינחס | 3 |
| US United States | — | 847as Pinchas | 1 in 393K | 839 | פנחס | 99 |
| LB Lebanon | #389 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | פנחס | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | 566 | Pinkas | 43 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Pinkas 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 German, 1. from Wendish pinkac 'to close the eyes'. 2. from Pincus
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Pinchas, Pinhas: aus der Bibel übernommener männl. Vom. (< hebr. pinhas < ägyptisch p'nhsj »der Dunkelhäutige, der
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Latvian, Rēzeknes novada Maltas pagasta apdzīvotās vietas "Pinki" nosaukuma variants
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Preiļu novada Aizkalnes pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (mazciems) Aizkraukles novada Seces pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Adolf Maria Pinkasb. 1800CZCzech member of Czech council, attorney and publicist
- Soběslav Pinkasb. 1827CZCzech painter (1827-1901)
- Otto Pinkasb. 1849CZCzech playwright and writer (1849–1890)
- Ignacy Pinkasb. 1888PLPolish painter (1888–1935)
- David-Zvi Pinkasb. 1895ILIsraeli politician (1895–1952)
- Zvi Pinkasb. 1910ILsport shooter
- Eli Pinkasb. 1920CHSwiss chemist and entrepreneur (1920-1980)
- Vlastimil Pinkasb. 1924CZCzech conductor and composer
- Karol Pinkasb. 1950PLPolish chess player
- Etai Pinkasb. 1973ILIsraeli activist and politician
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 566 | #2,653 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 566 | #2,530 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 198 | #92,719 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 190 | #101,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 190 | #90,252 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Pinkas mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebraic name, son of Eleazar and nephew of Aaron. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Pinkas?
- A machine transcription gives /pɪnkəz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Pinkas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.3 thousand people named פנחס in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pinkas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 847 people named Pinchas in 2020, about 1 in 393 thousand residents.
- How common is Pinkas compared with other names?
- In Israel, Pinkas is the 106th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pinkasThe 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, “Pinkas” — the 106th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.