what nationality is it?
2007-11-20 21:44:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
I couldn't find specific information on that surname, but based on US immigration records for people with that surname, it appears to be Scandanavian. Immigrants came from Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
It appears to be quite rare, so one might assume that it is a transliteration into arabic alphabet of a more common surname natively spelled with either alphabetic character(s) not part of the arabic alphabet or using arabic character substitutions for sounds resulting from diacritic marks applied to certain letters.
Someone of Scandanavian background might be able to come up with the more common spelling (even native) of the surname.
2007-11-21 02:42:29 · answer #1 · answered by Mind Bender 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The U.S. census records point to Iowa as the place where Sinksens lived in earlier times, and to Schleswig-Holstein in Germany before that, and suggesting mid-1880's as the time of immigration. Another source suggests that there was a family Sinksen in Denmark.
2007-11-22 03:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Roger the Mole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋