Tenbrink
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from mnd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈtɛnˌbɹɪŋk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tenbrink is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 331K(measured from records)
- ETEthiopia≈1 in 17K
- DEGermany≈1 in 174K
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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ethiopia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Toponymic surname from mnd. brink 'slope, edge'; variants with prepositions/localizers; 992 bearers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tenbrink 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Tenbrink | 1 |
| US United States | 1,006 | 1 in 331K | 1K | Tenbrink | 176 |
| DE Germany | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 174K | — | Tenbrink | 56 |
| CA Canada | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 476K | — | Tenbrink | 18 |
| IT Italy | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Tenbrink | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Tenbrink | 1 |
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. 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)Tenbrink 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 German, Low German habitational name with ten- 'at the' + brink 'slope/edge'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Toponymischer Familienname: aus alter präpositionaler Fügung zu dem Brinke vereinfacht; 992 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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)- Thora Tenbrinkb. 1969GBBritish linguist
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,434 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,762 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 873 | #26,306 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Tenbrink come from?
- Toponymic surname from mnd. brink 'slope, edge'; variants with prepositions/localizers; 992 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Tenbrink?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtɛnˌbɹɪŋk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Tenbrink mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from mnd.
- In which country does Tenbrink have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Tenbrink in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tenbrink.
- How common is the name Tenbrink?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,006 people named Tenbrink in 2010, about 1 in 331 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tenbrinkThe 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, “Tenbrink”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.