Sinek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fly (insect)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/sinɛc/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated
Sinek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 130K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 302K
- PLPoland1 in 684K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)
≈660 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)fly (insect)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sinek 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 129K | — | Sinek | 15 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 3M | listed | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 56 | 1 in 684K | 30 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 14 | 1 in 302K | 14 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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)Sinek is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In mkj, snake
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In slr, bone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In otk, a buzzing insect of various kinds
as a wordClauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
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)- Bohumil Sinekb. 1871CZHolocaust victim (born 1871)
- Karel Sinekb. 1876CZHolocaust victim (born 1876)
- Oskar Sinekb. 1876CZHolocaust victim (born 1876)
- Rudolf Sinekb. 1876CZHolocaust victim (born 1876)
- Leo Sinekb. 1881CZHolocaust victim (born 1881)
- Viktor Sinekb. 1882CZHolocaust victim (born 1882)
- Bedřich Sinekb. 1900CZholocaust victim, b. 1900-01-07
- František Sinekb. 1900CZHolocaust victim (born 1900)
- Simon Sinekb. 1973GBBritish/American author and motivational speaker
- Scott SinekUSbasketball player
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #70,651 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #77,047 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 14 | #27,374 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4 | #135,555 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4 | #22,131 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Sinek mean, and where does it come from?
- fly (insect) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sinek?
- In Turkish /sinɛc/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Sinek have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 663 people named Sinek in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinek.
- How common is the name Sinek?
- In Poland, the national register counted 56 people named Sinek in 2026, about 1 in 684 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinekThe 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, “Sinek”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.