Minie
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: inflection of miniar:
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪni/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 181K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 324K
- NLNetherlands1 in 346K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 75 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 181K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
feminine singular of mini
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Minie is read(measured from records)
Minie is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English50%
Claude-^tienne, French militarist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Spanish9.2%
inflection of miniar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Dutch8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Minie in Dutch.
- French7.7%
feminine singular of mini
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minie 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Minie | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 562K | — | Minie | 24 |
| US United States | 109 | 1 in 3.1M | 108 | Minie | 75 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈82 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Minie | 12 |
| FR France | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 50 | 1 in 346K | 50 | Minie | 13 |
| SG Singapore | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 324K | — | Minie | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 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); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Minie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Polish, third-person singular future of minąć
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.
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 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 7 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 6 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 2 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Minie come from?
- feminine singular of mini Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Minie?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪni/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Minie a male or female name?
- Minie 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.
- What does the name Minie mean?
- In Spanish, inflection of miniar:
- In which country does Minie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 312 people named Minie in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minie.
- How common is the name Minie?
- In the United States, the national register counted 109 people named Minie in 2020, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Minie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minieThe 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, “Minie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.