Mìñ
surname · Latin script
Mìñ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: there is only one Chinese character used for the Min surname. There is a legend that the Min clan’s founding ancestor, Ch’ing-do, was a descendant of Ch’a kon, one of the ten disciples of Confucius. Mìñ is also written মিন in Bengali, มินอ in Thai and ମନ in Odia.
- USUnited States1 in 28K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 2.6Kas Manu
- INIndia≈1 in 5.2Kas Mini
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mìñ itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 208 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280,000 named Mini, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mìñ in other scripts: Latin, Bengali, Thai and 2 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mini in US United States, FI Finland, SE Sweden and 1 more and Minu in IN India, BD Bangladesh, BR Brazil.
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)there is only one Chinese character used for the Min surname. There is a legend that the Min clan’s founding ancestor, Ch’ing-do, was a descendant of Ch’a kon, one of the ten disciples of Confucius. Ch’ing-do, an emissary from China to the Koryo kingdom, decided to stay and settled in the Yohung area. The surname Min can be found throughout Korea, but it is particularly concentrated in Cholla and Kyongsang provinces.
Cited for this meaning 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mìñ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #766 | ≈280,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 23K | Minu | 146 |
| BD Bangladesh | #601 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Minu | 29 |
| US United States | — | 11,776 | 1 in 28K | 7.8K | Mini | 208 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,111as Manu | 1 in 2.6K | 2.5K | Mini | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,189as Manu | 1 in 178K | 1.2K | Minu | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,156as Muna | 1 in 8.8K | 1.2K | Mini | 10 |
| HK Hong Kong | #839 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Mini | 13 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023). 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 Mìñ mean, and where does it come from?
- there is only one Chinese character used for the Min surname. There is a legend that the Min clan’s founding ancestor, Ch’ing-do, was a descendant of Ch’a kon, one of the ten disciples of Confucius. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 5 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Mìñ?
- Mondonomo estimates about 281 thousand people named Mini in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, United States, Finland and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mìñ most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mìñ is densest in the United States — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mìñ?
- In the United States, the national register counted 11,776 people named Mìñ in 2020, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Mìñ compared with other names?
- In India, Mìñ is the 766th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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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, “Mìñ” — ranked 542nd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.