Tinto

loc · Latin script

Meaning: dark red (wine)

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

Tinto is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
117 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

dark red (wine)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tinto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Tinto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—154Tinto117
PT Portugal——Tinto2
GB United Kingdom—111Tinto66
BR Brazil—566—1
AR Argentina—250——
ES Spain—178—7

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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Tintó

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Tintó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tintó

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tinto is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, do lat. tinctus; ligado a tintas e tintureiro

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Spanish, dark red (of wine)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, dyed

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, "Ater vinum, [...] arno tintoa, beltza " Urt III 21. "Fortement coloré" VocBN. .

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Latvian, Tintes vīns, biezs sarkans vīns no Spānijas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

190019502000Halidou Tinto, b. 1901Alberto Tinto, b. 1923Vince Tinto, b. 1950Hayden Tinto, b. 1985

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Tinto
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—566#15,224
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—250—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—178#18,066
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—178#18,011
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020154#119,015
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010147#118,185
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000133#120,330
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)2002111#31,017
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Tinto mean, and where does it come from?
dark red (wine) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tinto?
A machine transcription gives /tĩtu/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Tinto have the most bearers?
Tinto is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled tinto.

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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, “Tinto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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