How common is the surname Zink?

9,134 people in the United States had the surname Zink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,802 Americans. It ranked 3,882nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Zink?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Zink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Zink getting more or less common?

More common. 8,525 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,134 in 2010, up 7.1%.

The surname Zink

A surname, carried by 9,134 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex Z520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Zink is more common than 97.6% of them.

Origin

* As a German surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“peak, spike, tooth”). * As a surname derived from various Romance languages, from Jacinctus, derived from the saint's name Hyacinthus. Comparable to Spanish Jacinto, Italian Giacinto.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,134 people named Zink in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 33,802 Americans. That is up 7.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,525.

#3,882

rank among US surnames

9,134

people in 2010

3.1

per 100,000 Americans

+7.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,824)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,873	Pitt	9,151	33,739
#3,874	Ainsworth	9,149	33,746
#3,876	Calkins	9,146	33,757
#3,877	Gaddis	9,142	33,772
#3,879	McClintock	9,141	33,776
#3,880	Worden	9,139	33,783
#3,881	Dube	9,136	33,794

Who is named Zink

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Zink identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Zink

Zinke

Zink has the Soundex code Z520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Z520.

Questions

Where does the surname Zink come from?: * As a German surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“peak, spike, tooth”). * As a surname derived from various Romance languages, from Jacinctus, derived from the saint's name Hyacinthus. Comparable to Spanish Jacinto, Italian Giacinto.
How common is the surname Zink?: 9,134 people in the United States had the surname Zink in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 33,802 Americans. It ranked 3,882nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Zink?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Zink identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Zink getting more or less common?: More common. 8,525 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,134 in 2010, up 7.1%.