Miners
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Miners is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Cornwall. variant of Miner with post-medieval excrescent -s.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 120Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 210K
- CACanada≈1 in 330Kfew records
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Main GB Location (1881): Cornwall. variant of Miner with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miners 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Miners | 92 |
| US United States | 248 | 1 in 1.3M | 258 | Miners | 122 |
| AU Australia | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Miners | 52 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | Miners | 9 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 328K | — | Miners | 54 |
| BZ Belize | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Miners | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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)Miners is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Danish, indefinite genitive plural of mine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, indefinite genitive plural of min
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)- Thomas Minersb. 1860AUAustralian politician
- Nicole Minersactress
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 258 | #70,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 252 | #81,047 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 248 | #77,264 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Miners mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Cornwall. variant of Miner with post-medieval excrescent -s. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- In which country does Miners have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 328 people named Miners in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miners.
- How common is the name Miners?
- In the United States, the national register counted 248 people named Miners in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million 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/minersThe 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, “Miners”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.