Sinken

surname · Latin script

Meaning: to sink

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

Sinken is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • CLChile
  • KEKenya
  • DEGermany

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to sink

Sources 1

  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Sinken 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 German, to sink; to submerge; to set; to fall from the sky

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

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite masculine singular of sink

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

  • In gmh, to sink (intransitive)

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

  • In dum, to sink (in water)

    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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia surname tokens

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 Sinken mean, and where does it come from?
to sink Recorded by A Frequency Dictionary of German.
What are other forms of the name Sinken?
In the etymology graph, Sink and Zinken are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Sinken have the most bearers?
Sinken is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sinken”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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