Tinoco

surname · Latin script

Meaning: eccentric

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/tinoko/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tinoco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 777(inferred from the name graph)
  • HNHonduras≈1 in 3.1K
  • ECEcuador1 in 3.6K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

13,476 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
245 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 777 (inferred from the name graph)

Nicaragua, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

TinocoLatin(measured from records)
ТинокоCyrillic(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(measured from records)

eccentric

Sources 1

  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tinoco 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.

Where Tinoco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#65313,4761 in 16K13KTinoco131
US United States—9,7071 in 34K9.7KTinoco245
NI Nicaragua#102≈8,000 est.≈1 in 777—Tinoco32
PE Peru#618≈7,200 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Tinoco65
EC Ecuador#5854,7201 in 3.6K4.7KTinoco44
HN Honduras#239≈3,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Tinoco26
CR Costa Rica#3187821 in 6.5K782Tinoco44

13,476 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tinoco is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Tinôco, Ťîňôčô, Tinöcö

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written Tinôco

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tinôco

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Vicente Ballester Tinoco, b. 1903Pedro R. Tinoco, b. 1927Eraldo Tinoco Melo, b. 1943Alexandra Hill Tinoco, b. 1950Tania Tinoco, b. 1963José Tinoco, b. 1974Jesús Tinoco, b. 1995Diego Tinoco, b. 1997Bárbara Tinoco, b. 1998

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)

FormalEstimado/a Tinoco,Dear Tinoco, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Tinoco,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Tinoco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—13K#1,074
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020109.7K#3,670
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020209.1K#3,811
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020006.4K#5,046
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20244.7K#816
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—4.7K—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—782#518
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199883—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199481—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)199580—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)200878—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)196677—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Tinoco mean, and where does it come from?
eccentric Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
How do you pronounce Tinoco?
A machine transcription gives /tinoko/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Tinoco have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Tinoco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tinoco.
How common is the name Tinoco?
In Brazil, the national register counted 13,476 people named Tinoco, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
How common is Tinoco compared with other names?
In Brazil, Tinoco is the 653rd most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Tinoco” — the 653rd most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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