Given name & surname · also German
Zinn
Zinn is a surname from German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic. It is used in English and German.
Original GermanZinner
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Zinn comes from German, and ultimately from Proto-Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From German Zinn, from Middle High German zin, from Old High German zin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Zinn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 17
- 17 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,657 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Zinn’s family of names
In German usage, Zinn as a surname has a related form in ZINNER.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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