Vink
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Vink is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 71st most common surname. Recorded meaning: chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs).
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3Kas Wong
- CNChina≈1 in 84Kas หวัง
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 Vink 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 287 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
111,371 named Wong, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
20 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vong in US United States, Angel in ES Spain and Wang in CN China.
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)
chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vink 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 111,371as Wong | 1 in 3K | 264K | Vong | 287 |
| CN China | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Wang | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 15,616as Wang | 1 in 3.2K | 210K | Angel | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | #71 | 12,161 | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Vink | 120 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,036as Wang | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | — | 7 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,969as Wang | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Vink | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 649as Wong | 1 in 1.2K | 649 | — | — |
111,371 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling wong. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Vink is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, a wave (a movement of the hand)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of vinke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, A finch.
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)
- Christofor Vinkb. 1878EEEstonian orthodox priest (1878-1972)
- Gery Vinkb. 1965NLDutch footballer manager
- Pieter Vinkb. 1967NLDutch football referee and police officer (born 1967)
- Marciano Vinkb. 1970NLDutch footballer
- Ronald Vinkb. 1976NLDutch wheelchair tennis player
- Kevin Vinkb. 1984NLDutch footballer
- Michael Vinkb. 1991NZNew Zealand road bicycle racer
- Wimilio Vinkb. 1993NLDutch footballer
- Rene Vinkb. 2000NLDutch cyclist
- Niels Vinkb. 2002NLDutch quad wheelchair tennis 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 12K | #37 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 811 | #29,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 786 | #31,542 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 767 | #29,099 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 81 | #15,156 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 55 | #41,909 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 55 | #41,513 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 12 | #52,191 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 Vink mean, and where does it come from?
- chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Vink have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 111 thousand people named Wong, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vink most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vink is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vink?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 12,161 people named Vink in 2007, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Vink compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Vink is the 71st most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vink?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinkThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Vink” — the 71st most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.