Sinku
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sɪnku/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sinku is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 89K(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 588K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
14,823 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ስንቁ in ET Ethiopia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sinku 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 14,823 | 1 in 89K | 15K | Sinku | 51 |
| ET Ethiopia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 588K | — | ስንቁ | 3 |
| US United States | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Sinku | 35 |
| DE Germany | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Sinku | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Sinku | 5 |
14,823 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 15K | #757 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 35 | #6,188 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Sinku?
- A machine transcription gives /sɪnku/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Sinku have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Sinku, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sinku.
- Where is Sinku most common?
- Sinku is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 89 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Sinku?
- In India, the national register counted 14,823 people named Sinku, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Sinku?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sinkuThe 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, “Sinku”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.