Tine
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Danish: a female given name, diminutive of Katrine or of any name ending in -tine (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as female
- Norway (SSB): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva): listed as male
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/tiː.nə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Tine is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Denmark than in any other country: 7,648 people, counted by the Danmarks Statistik, which ranks it 92nd.
- DKDenmark1 in 767(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 1.1K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 2Kfew records
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.
- Denmark (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 767 (inferred from the name graph)
7,648 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Tine
- Dutch:/tiː.nə/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Norwegian:/tɪnə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Tine is read
(measured from records)Tine is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Danish31%
a female given name, diminutive of Katrine or of any name ending in -tine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tine in German.
- English15%
A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tine in Dutch.
- Norwegian5.2%
a diminutive of the female given names Kristine or Martine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
to thaw
as a wordrecorded as Norwegian Nynorskkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tine 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | #140 | 7,648 | 1 in 767 | 7.6K | Tine | 142 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 16 | Tine | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 3,120 | 1 in 5.5K | 3.1K | Tine | 15 |
| NO Norway | #469 | 2,186 | 1 in 2.5K | 7.1K | Tine | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,955 | 1 in 1.1K | 2K | Tine | 8 |
7,648 people counted by Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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: Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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)Tine 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 enm, alternative form of þin (“thy”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, vocative singular of tīnus
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)- Camilla Søebergb. 1966not in their usual nameDanish actress
- Tine Baunb. 1979DKDanish badminton player
- Tine Urnautb. 1988SISlovene volleyball player
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)54 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Tine come from?
- A spike or point on an implement or tool, especially a prong of a fork or a tooth of a comb. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Tine?
- In the etymology graph, Chris, Tina and Kristin are forms of the same name in other languages; Kjersti is a recorded short or pet form; it is recorded as a short form of Kristina and Kristine.
- How do you pronounce Tine?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /tiː.nə/; in Norwegian /tɪnə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Tine a male or female name?
- Tine is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Denmark (Danmarks Statistik): listed as female; Norway (SSB): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva): listed as male. We don't publish a percentage split.
- What does the name Tine mean?
- In Danish, a female given name, diminutive of Katrine or of any name ending in -tine
- Which countries have the most people named Tine?
- In Denmark, the national register counted about 7.6 thousand people named Tine, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tine. After it come Belgium, Netherlands, Norway and Slovenia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Tine most common?
- Tine is densest in Denmark, where the national register counts about 1 in 767 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tine?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 7,648 people named Tine, about 1 in 767 residents.
- How common is Tine compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Tine is the 140th most common given name of 23,174 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tineThe 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, “Tine” — ranked 92nd in Denmark (Danmarks Statistik). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.