Miñton
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Miñton is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: so called from W mynydd hill + OE tun enclosure, settle¬ ment. Miralles Catalan: habitation name from any of the various minor places in NE Spain named with Cat.
- USUnited States1 in 24K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
- ESSpain1 in 3.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
13,737 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Minton in US United States, CV Cape Verde.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)so called from W mynydd hill + OE tun enclosure, settle¬ ment. Miralles Catalan: habitation name from any of the various minor places in NE Spain named with Cat. miralla watchtower, look-out post (cf. Miranda).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miñton counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 13,737 | 1 in 24K | 14K | Minton | 82 |
| ES Spain | — | 15 | 1 in 3.3M | 15 | — | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
| CV Cape Verde | #809 | — | — | — | Minton | 1 |
13,737 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miñton mean, and where does it come from?
- so called from W mynydd hill + OE tun enclosure, settle¬ ment. Miralles Catalan: habitation name from any of the various minor places in NE Spain named with Cat. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dictionary of American Family Names and 2 other sources.
- Is Miñton a male or female name?
- Miñton is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Miñton have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Miñton, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minton.
- Where is Miñton most common?
- Miñton is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Miñton?
- In the United States, the national register counted 13,737 people named Miñton in 2010, about 1 in 24 thousand residents.
- How common is Miñton compared with other names?
- In Cape Verde, Miñton is the 809th most common surname of 2,258 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mi%C3%B1tonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miñton” — the 809th most common surname in Cape Verde. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.