Zinka
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/zinka/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Zinka is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 343 people, counted by SURS in 2025. Zinka is also written Зинка in Cyrillic.
- SISlovenia1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 32K
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 41Kfew records
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 Zinka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
343 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zinka in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Zinka
- Croatian:/zinka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Bulgarian:/ziŋkɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zinka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | 343 | 1 in 6.1K | 343 | Zinka | 6 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Zinka | 5 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Zinka | 19 |
| HR Croatia | 133 | 1 in 32K | 133 | Zinka | 22 |
| IN India | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 12M | 41 | — | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | 40as Зинка | 1 in 53K | 40 | — | — |
343 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)Zinka 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, alternative form of sinka (“cornett”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, ( BN-baig ap. A ), sinka ( BN-mix ap. A ), dzinka ( BN-lab ap. A ), dsinka ( BN-lab ap. A ). "Calor penetrante del sol" A . "(BN-mix), acción fuerte del sol; vulg., picadura. [...] Ekhisinka bat (BN-mix), rayo fugitivo de sol" Ib. . Cf. txinka. Delakotz beltza, lur-ustelak du hobekienik hartzen iguzki zinka eta beroa. Gaxitegi Laborantza 22.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
In Basque, "(V-ple-arr-m), pasar la bola por el lado derecho o izquierdo fuera de todos los bolos: vale cinco puntos" A .
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)- Zinka Milanovb. 1906USCroatian opera singer
- Zinka Zorkob. 1936SISlovene linguist and dialectologist
- Zinka Kolaričb. 1951SISlovenian sociologist
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Zinka?
- It depends on the language: in Croatian /zinka/ (Wiktionary); in Bulgarian /ziŋkɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Zinka a male or female name?
- Zinka is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- Which countries have the most people named Zinka?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 343 people named Zinka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zinka. After it come Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia and India; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Zinka most common?
- Zinka is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Zinka?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 343 people named Zinka in 2025, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zinka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zinkaThe 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, “Zinka” — ranked 376th in Slovenia (SURS, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.