Jinks
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒɪŋks/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jinks is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Midlands: esp. Staffs and. see Jenks .
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Main GB Location (1881): Midlands: esp. Staffs and. see Jenks .
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Jinksb. 1872IEIrish politician
- Fred Jinksb. 1880AUAustralian rules footballer
- Fred Jinksb. 1909AUcricketer (1909-1996)
- Allan Jinksb. 1913AUcricketer (1913-1997)
- Jimmy Jinksb. 1916GBEnglish footballer (1916-1981)
- John L. Jinksb. 1929GBBritish geneticist (1929-1987)
- Catherine Jinksb. 1963AUAustralian writer
- Sam Jinksb. 1973AUAustralian sculptor
- Mike Jinksb. 1973USAmerican football player and coach
- Dan Jinksb. 2000USAmerican film producer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.7K | #10,860 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,725 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 21 | #188,821 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #122,653 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #266,720 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #343,111 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jinks mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Midlands: esp. Staffs and. see Jenks . Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- How do you pronounce Jinks?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɪŋks/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jinks have the most bearers?
- Jinks is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Jinks?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinksThe 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, “Jinks”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.