Brinks
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Brinks is a surname, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. In South Sudan it is the 9th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: zu Brink ‘Böschung, Hang, Rand, Erhebung’ bzw.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K◐
- USUnited States1 in 278K
- SSSouth Sudan1 in 5.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.6K ●
- Sources
- 195 ●
- 1 in 13K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
Toponymischer Familienname: zu Brink ‘Böschung, Hang, Rand, Erhebung’ bzw. zu einem Ortsnamen; 189 Träger. Varianten/Belege: Brin(c)ks.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,286 | 1K rec. | 1 in 13K | 1.3K | Brinks | 53 |
| US United States | — | 1,196 | 8.7K rec. | 1 in 278K | 1.2K | Brinks | 195 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 240 | 242 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 18 |
| CA Canada | — | 170 | 168 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 18 |
| AU Australia | — | 126 | 121 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 23 |
| DK Denmark | — | 75 | — | 1 in 78K | 75 | — | — |
| SS South Sudan | #9 | 54 | 173 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 1 |
| HN Honduras | — | 32 | 33 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 2 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 32 | 32 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 2 |
| CO Colombia | — | 31 | 30 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | — | 26 | 27 rec. | — | — | Brinks | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 22△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 249K | 22 | — | 3 |
Roughly 1.3K people in Netherlands bear this name (about 1 in 13K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English10K69%
- Western Frisian1.3K9%
- German8075%
- Dutch4943%
- Danish3612%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 10,166 | 69% |
| Western Frisian | 1,286 | 9% |
| German | 807 | 5% |
| Dutch | 494 | 3% |
| Danish | 361 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Brinks 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 Portuguese, clipping of brincadeira (“just kidding; just joking”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In jam, sugar daddy
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Izsauksmes vārds, ko lieto ledus lūšanas trokšņa raksturošanai
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
- Kuno Brinksb. 1908NLDutch graphic designer and draughtsperson (1908–1992)
- Roel Brinksb. 1954NLDutch football player
- Elias Brinksb. 1955NLDutch astrophysicist
- Winnie Brinksb. 1968USAmerican politician (born 1968)
- Ralph Brinksb. 1973DEresearcher
- Kimberly Brinksb. 1990USAmerican pornographic actress
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 15 sources across 10 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-09-12 data build · 13 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Brinks?
- We estimate roughly 2.6 thousand people bear Brinks (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Brinks have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.3 thousand people bear Brinks in the Netherlands, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled brinks.
- How common is Brinks compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Brinks is the 9th most common surname of 1,634 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Brinks mean?
- Recorded meaning: Toponymischer Familienname: zu Brink ‘Böschung, Hang, Rand, Erhebung’ bzw.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Brinks” — the 9th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.