Minich
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname from the vocabulary word mnich ‘monk’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Minich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 58Kas Мініч(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 166Kas Минич
- PLPoland1 in 129K
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 Minich 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)
1,951 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Минич in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan and Мініч in UA Ukraine.
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)
nickname from the vocabulary word mnich ‘monk’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minich 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 | — | 1,951 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Minich | 8 |
| BY Belarus | #947 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Минич | 16 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Минич | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Минич | 107 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Мініч | 29 |
| PL Poland | — | 297 | 1 in 129K | 155 | Minich | 20 |
| HR Croatia | — | 129as Minić | 1 in 33K | 129 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 96as Minic | 1 in 88K | 96 | — | 1 |
1,951 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Angelo Minichb. 1817ITItalian surgeon and politician (1817-1893)
- Alfred Minichb. 1886CZHolocaust victim (born 1886)
- Oskar Minichb. 1896CZHolocaust victim (born 1896)
- Marian Minichb. 1898PLPolish historian
- Peter Minichb. 1927ATAustrian singer and opera singer (1927–2013)
- Hannes Minichb. 1946ATAustrian environmentalist, President of the Vienna Naturschutzbund, retired ranger
- Martin Minichb. 1977SKSlovak translator
- Vadim Minichb. 1986RURussian footballer
- Sergej Minichb. 1987DEGerman politician
- Valeryi MinichBelarusian politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2K | #15,120 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #16,987 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 155 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 155 | #20,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 142 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 142 | #22,498 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Minich mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname from the vocabulary word mnich ‘monk’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Minich have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Minich, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minich.
- Where is Minich most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Minich is densest in Poland — about 1 in 129 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Minich?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,951 people named Minich in 2010, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
- How common is Minich compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Minich is the 947th most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minichThe 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, “Minich” — the 947th most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.