The Tinoco surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 9,707 people carried this name — #3,670 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 30,400 people counted. That is up 52% from 6,379 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 226 people named Tinoco live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
40 people named Tinoco live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where 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 38 people named Tinoco.
Most of them — 20 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 12 départements, most often Puy-de-Dôme.
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 print
Tinoco in American newspapers,
1917–1932.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
In print
Tinoco in Australian newspapers,
1840s–1980s.
20 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tinoco. The most, 10, date from the 1980s.
Articles, by state
Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Tinoco.
Who carried it
People named Tinoco,
with a public archive behind them.
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María de la Luz Ávalos y Tinoco 1793– -
Luis Demetrio Tinoco Castro 1905–1986 · lawyer -
Eraldo Tinoco 1943–2008 · politician -
Tania Tinoco 1963–2022 · television producer -
Afonso Garcia Tinoco 1556– · judge
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Juan Tinoco 1641–1703 · artist
Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped — Luis Demetrio Tinoco Castro: BeatrizNúñez1395, CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0); Eraldo Tinoco: Portal de Dados Abertos do Tribunal Superior Eleitoral do Brasil (TSE), CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0); Tania Tinoco: LocoWiki, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0); the others are in the public domain or CC0 · 32 lives in all are documented under this name.
In the public record
People named Tinoco,
in the records of 2 countries.
Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.
United States110 records
- U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 94
- U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 9
- New York City birth, marriage and death certificates 4
- U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 3
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Example: U.S. registration card, 1942 Military record Fortunato TinocoBorn 1920 in Mexico. Enlisted 1942 at Houston, Texas; driver from Victoria County, Texas.
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Example: U.S. burial record, 1864 Burial record Bernardo TinocoU.S. Army veteran of the Korean War. Born 1930, died 2000; buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0) -
Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s Alien registration Maria S. TinocoBorn 1900 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in Johnson County, Kansas, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.
U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
Showing 3 of 110 records for Tinoco in the United States.
Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · NYC Department of Records & Information Services, Historical Vital Records (NYC Open Data) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).
France9 records
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Raphael TinocoBorn 1952 in Spain; died 2001 in Villemolaque (Pyrénées-Orientales).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Therese Marie TinocoBorn 1967 in Tullins (Isère); died 1990 in Bron (Rhône).
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Example: French death register, 1930 Death record Raymond TinocoBorn 1910 in Talence; died 1978 in Bordeaux (Gironde).
Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte)
Showing 3 of 9 records for Tinoco in France.
Counts: Insee, Fichier des personnes décédées (Licence Ouverte). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Death register of Nice, 1930, Archives départementales des Alpes-Maritimes (public domain).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Tinoco.
- Tindall 6,802 · U.S. census
- Tine 596 · U.S. census
- Tinelli 241 · U.S. census
- Tingle 4,712 · U.S. census
- Tinker 6,291 · U.S. census
- Tinnes 376 · U.S. census
- Tinsley 15,442 · U.S. census
- Tinti 280 · U.S. census
- Tipton 25,064 · U.S. census
- Tirado 13,410 · U.S. census
- Tirelli 197 · U.S. census
- Tirone 840 · U.S. census
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