Zinka

given name · Latin script

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

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

Zinka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.1K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 12K
  • HRCroatia1 in 32K

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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Slovenia (measured from records)

343 people, 2025

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ZinkaLatin(measured from records)
ЗинкаCyrillic(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.

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.

Where Zinka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia3431 in 6.1K343Zinka6
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina≈310 est.≈1 in 12K—Zinka5
BG Bulgaria≈140 est.≈1 in 50K—Zinka19
HR Croatia1331 in 32K133Zinka22
US United States≈46 est.≈1 in 7.2MlistedZinka10
MK North Macedonia40as Зинка1 in 53K40——

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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zinka is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Žinka

33 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)

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)

1900192019401960Zinka Milanov, b. 1906Zinka Pavletić, b. 1934Zinka Zorko, b. 1936Zinka Kolarič, b. 1951

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)

InformalBok Zinka,Hi Zinka, (English)

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)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Zinka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008379#301
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009374#305
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010373#309
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012371#315
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011371#314
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013369#322
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015366#328
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014366#328
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2016365#331
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017363#332
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018361#336
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019360#340

Reference works 3

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

How do you pronounce Zinka?
A machine transcription gives /z̪iŋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Zinka a male or female name?
Zinka is a female 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 Zinka have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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, “Zinka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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