Zinn

5,657 people in the United States were counted with the surname Zinn in the 2020 census, making it the 5,875th most common in the country. That is about one person in 52,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,657
Rank: 5,875th
How common: 1 in 52,800
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Zinn described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Zinn

Howard Zinn (1922–2010)American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker
Johann Gottfried Zinn (1727–1759)botanist and physician
Elfi Zinn (born 1953)East German middle distance runner
Walter Zinn (1906–2000)nuclear physicist

People named Zinn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Zinn

Zink

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.