Sinka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪnkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.4M(measured from records)
- TZTanzania≈1 in 126K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 126K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Sinka | 5 |
| US United States | 238 | 1 in 1.4M | 252 | Sinka | 102 |
| PL Poland | 182 | 1 in 210K | 97 | — | 1 |
| IN India | 127 | 1 in 10M | 127 | Sinka | 4 |
| DE Germany | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 723K | — | Sinka | 44 |
| AT Austria | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Sinka | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | Sinka | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | 14 | — | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Sinka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Vasilei Ondreianov syn Sinka. 1568.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Swedish, to slow down or delay (someone or something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Slovak, bruise
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, upe Spānijā ("Cinca"), Katalonijā, Segre labā krasta pieteka, garums - 192 km
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)
- Robert Sinkab. 1894EEEstonian politician and physician (1894-1970)
- István Sinkab. 1897HUHungarian writer, poet (1897–1969)
- József Sinkab. 1913RORomanian journalist
- József Sinkab. 1931HUHungarian physicist
- Károly Sinkab. 1934ROHungarian actor
- César Salinasb. 1961BOnot in their usual nameBolivian association football chairman and president
- István Sinkab. 1967Hungarian chess player
- András Sinkab. 1978HUbadminton player
- Zsuzsánna Sinkab. 1989RORomanian association football player
- Rita SinkaHUresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-4040-4184
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 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 305 | #1,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 238 | #79,846 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 127 | #24,263 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 97 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 97 | #30,381 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 85 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 85 | #34,221 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #8,105 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 12 | #9,071 |
Reference works 4
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- 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
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 Sinka?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪnkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sinka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 465 people named Sinka in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinka.
- How common is the name Sinka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 238 people named Sinka in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Sinka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinkaThe 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, “Sinka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.