Tinna
given name · Icelandic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tinna is a given name, with more bearers in Iceland than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Icelandic and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: flint.
- USUnited States1 in 763K◐
- ISIceland1 in 367
- DKDenmark1 in 7.4K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.4K ●
- Sources
- 129 ●
- 1 in 367 ◐
across 8 countries
5.1K records
Official registry-verified
Iceland
Meaning & origin●
flint
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | 955△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 367 | 955 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 795△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 7.4K | 795 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 436 | 3.8K rec. | 1 in 763K | 436 | Tinna | 129 |
| SE Sweden | 155△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 66K | 155 | Tinna | 13 |
| GB United Kingdom | 131 | 133 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 24 |
| AU Australia | 109 | 110 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 21 |
| DE Germany | 101 | 125 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | 82 | 81 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 12 |
| PH Philippines | 75 | 54 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 13 |
| BR Brazil | 67 | 41 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 14 |
| CA Canada | 56 | 69 rec. | — | — | Tinna | 16 |
| FI Finland | 52△ | 11 rec. | 1 in 107K | 66 | — | 4 |
Roughly 955 people in Iceland bear this name (about 1 in 367). 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●
- Icelandic4.6K29%
- English4.3K27%
- Danish3.4K21%
- Hindi4653%
- 4173%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Icelandic | 4,602 | 29% |
| English | 4,295 | 27% |
| Danish | 3,359 | 21% |
| Hindi | 465 | 3% |
| 417 | 3% |
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●
Tinna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nrn, to pick, pluck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1957 | 7 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 8 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 18 |
| 1963 | 11 |
| 1964 | 21 |
| 1965 | 17 |
| 1966 | 22 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 18 |
| 1969 | 12 |
| 1970 | 17 |
| 1971 | 22 |
| 1972 | 14 |
| 1973 | 12 |
| 1974 | 7 |
| 1975 | 10 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 11 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1996 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 29 years between 1957–1996. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttirb. 1954ISIcelandic actress
- Tinna Jonéb. 1970SESwedish journalist and actor
- Tinna Hrafnsdóttirb. 1975ISIcelandic actor
- Guðrún Tinna Ólafsdóttirb. 1975daughter of Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson
- Tinna Hoffmanb. 1983DKDanish dancer
- Tinna Helgadóttirb. 1984ISIcelandic badminton player
- Tindra Frostb. 1991ISnot in their usual nameIcelandic pornographic actress
- Tinna StevnsnerPLresearcher
- Tinna T. NielsenDanish association football player
- Tinna FinnbogadóttirISIcelandic 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 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 955 | #147 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 795 | #448 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 735 | #57 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 567 | #67 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 436 | #22,492 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 155 | #6,325 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 138 | #6,220 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 121 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 120 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 115 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 133 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tinna?
- We estimate roughly 2.4 thousand people bear Tinna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tinna have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 955 people bear Tinna in Iceland, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Tinna most common?
- Tinna is densest in Iceland, where the national register counts about 1 in 367 people carrying it.
- Is Tinna a male or female name?
- Tinna 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.
- What does the name Tinna mean?
- Recorded meaning: flint
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Tinna”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.