Mignon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from mignon, mignot, ‘pleasing’, ‘charming’, ‘attractive’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪnjɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mignon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 244K(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 6.9K
- GYGuyana1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from mignon, mignot, ‘pleasing’, ‘charming’, ‘attractive’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mignon 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Mignon | 2 |
| US United States | 1,366 | 1 in 244K | 1.3K | Mignon | 249 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Mignon | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | 590 | 1 in 29K | 578 | Mignon | 24 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Mignon | 5 |
| GY Guyana | 56 | 1 in 13K | 56 | Mignon | 3 |
| GA Gabon | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | — | 1 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mignon is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Small and cute; pretty in a delicate way; dainty.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, French; sweet, dainty; see Minette
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In French, cute (of a baby, an animal, etc.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, mignon (small and dainty)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, clipping of filé mignon
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mignon Talbotb. 1869USAmerican paleontologist and geologist (1869-1950)
- Mignon Andersonb. 1892USAmerican actress (1892-1983)
- Mignon G. Eberhartb. 1899USnovelist (1899–1996)
- Mignon McLaughlinb. 1913USAmerican journalist (1913-1983)
- Mignon Dunnb. 1928USAmerican mezzo-soprano and voice teacher (1928–2026)
- Mignon Holland Andersonb. 1945USAmerican writer (born 1945)
- Mignon Reméb. 1966DEGerman actress
- Mignon Fogartyb. 1967USAmerican writer
- Mignon du Preezb. 1989ZASouth African cricketer, who was the women's team captain
- Mignon Vonactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #9,946 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 578 | #1,851 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 344 | #3,989 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 56 | #538 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 55 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1961 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1962 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1916 | 38 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1947 | 37 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18 | #9,946 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Mignon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Mignon in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mignon.
- What does the name Mignon mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from mignon, mignot, ‘pleasing’, ‘charming’, ‘attractive’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mignon?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪnjɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Mignon a male or female name?
- Mignon is a female 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.
- How common is the name Mignon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,366 people named Mignon in 2020, about 1 in 244 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mignonThe 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, “Mignon”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.