Linkė

surname · Latin script

Linkė is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: left-wing party, Left Party.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 45K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 59K
  • FIFinland1 in 65K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,962 people, 2010

Record sources
5 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are 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)

left-wing party, Left Party

Cited for this meaning 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Linkė 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 Linkė is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,9621 in 170K2K—2
PL Poland8601 in 45K458——
BR Brazil8151 in 260K815——
CH Switzerland1081 in 78K108——
NL Netherlands1041 in 166K104——
NO Norway921 in 59K92——
FI Finland861 in 65K86——
DK Denmark831 in 71K83——

1,962 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • German surname10 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Linke, Lìnke

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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Linkė under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Linkė mean, and where does it come from?
left-wing party, Left Party Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and A Frequency Dictionary of German.
In which country does Linkė have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Linkė, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Linkė most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Linkė is densest in Poland — about 1 in 45 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Linkė?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,962 people named Linkė in 2010, about 1 in 170 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, “Linkė”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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