Sinko
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈsɪŋkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Back-formation from singota.
- USUnited States1 in 465K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 5.7K
- HRCroatia1 in 8K
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)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Back-formation from singota
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Sinko | 7 |
| US United States | — | 716 | 1 in 465K | 716 | Sinko | 178 |
| HR Croatia | — | 531 | 1 in 8K | 531 | — | — |
| IN India | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 3M | 1 | Sinko | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 369 | 1 in 5.7K | 369 | Sinko | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Sinko | 4 |
| HU Hungary | #887 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Sinko | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 217 | 1 in 26K | 217 | — | 2 |
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; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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)
Sinko 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, "blue."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Finnish, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, RPG
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)
- Krystyna Maria Sinko-Popielowab. 1908PLPolish art historian
- Grzegorz Sinkob. 1923PLPolish anglicist
- Anatoly Sinkob. 1950RURussian association football player (1950-2018)
- Anna Sinkob. 1995RURussian association football player
- Patrick J SinkoUSpharmacy researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-0157-1895)
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 716 | #32,203 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 707 | #34,525 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 704 | #31,167 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 217 | #7,009 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 99 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 45 | #14,183 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 42 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #31,618 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (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 Sinko mean, and where does it come from?
- Back-formation from singota Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Sinko?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈsɪŋkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Sinko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 787 people named Sinko in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinko.
- Where is Sinko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sinko is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sinko?
- In the United States, the national register counted 716 people named Sinko in 2010, about 1 in 465 thousand residents.
- How common is Sinko compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Sinko is the 887th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinkoThe 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, “Sinko” — the 887th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.