The Cinar surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 286 people carried this name — #68,770 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 40% from 204 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 523 people named Cinar live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
226 people named Cinar live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 78 people named Cinar.
Most of them — 57 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Isère.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
91 people named Cinar are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Cinar,
with a public archive behind them.
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Meral Cinar 1982– · social scientist
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Enis Cinar 1997– · entrepreneur
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cinar.
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cinar is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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