Tinko
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tinko is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)
9 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Tinko 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 9 | 1 in 1.9M | 9 | — | 2 |
| PL Poland | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| BG Bulgaria | — | — | — | Tinko | 35 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Tinko | 10 |
| HR Croatia | — | — | — | Tinko | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | — | — | Tinko | 3 |
9 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Tinko is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Tinko Kuzminich, craftsman. 1577.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In bnt-pro, stopper
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Esperanto, tench
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-pro, bouchon
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- 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
- Is Tinko a male or female name?
- Tinko is a male 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 Tinko have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 9 people named Tinko, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Tinko most common?
- Tinko is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 million people carrying it.
- How common is the name Tinko?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 9 people named Tinko, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Tinko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tinkoThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Tinko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.