Tinka
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: quarrel, disagreement
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tɪŋkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Tinka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 6.3Kas Тинка(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 7.3K
- FIFinland1 in 22K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Tinka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 52 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 named Тинка, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
quarrel, disagreement
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Tinka is read(measured from records)
Tinka is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- English26%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tinka in English.
- Bulgarian25%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tinka in Bulgarian.
- Finnish11%
quarrel, disagreement
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hindi10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tinka in Hindi.
- German9.2%
weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Croatian7.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Tinka in Croatian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Tinka 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #456 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Tinka | 52 |
| SI Slovenia | #850 | 289 | 1 in 7.3K | 301 | Tinka | 13 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 272 | 1 in 64K | 272 | Tinka | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 252 | 1 in 22K | 262 | Tinka | 4 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 234as Тинка | 1 in 9.1K | 234 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 95 | 1 in 45K | 95 | Tinka | 16 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Tinka 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 pjt, goanna, in particular the sand goanna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Tintineando. Esne-marmitek, tinka; / basagurdia, kirri -ka . Ldi UO 36. Musika bideko joanari laguntzen... gora ta bera... tinka-tinka . (Interpr?). NEtx LBB 187.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Tinka Kraevab. 1910BGBulgarian operetta actress (1910-1970)
- Tinka Kurtib. 1932ALAlbanian actress
- Tinka Dinevab. 1941BGBulgarian basketball player (1941-2021)
- Tinka Milinovićb. 1973BABosnian-American television star and personality, opera singer, recording artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, actress and model
- Tinka Bechertb. 1975DEartist
- Tinka Leskovšekb. 1982SISlovenian illustrator
- Tinka Fürstb. 1988DEGerman actress
- Tinka Offereinsb. 1993NLDutch rower
- Tinka Eastonb. 1996AUAustralian judoka (1996-)
- Tinka HovnikSIresearcher
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 42 sources across 24 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Tinka mean, and where does it come from?
- quarrel, disagreement Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Tinka?
- A machine transcription gives /tɪŋkə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Tinka a male or female name?
- Tinka is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Tinka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Тинка in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tinka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tinka is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.3 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Tinka?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 289 people named Tinka in 2025, about 1 in 7.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Tinka compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Tinka is the 456th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Tinka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tinkaThe 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, “Tinka” — the 456th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.