Minkin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Yiddish personal name Minke, a pet form of Mine (see Mindel)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɪŋkɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 669K(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 48Kas Минкина
- UAUkraine≈1 in 158Kas Мінкіна
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 Minkin 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 210 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Минкина in RU Russia, BG Bulgaria, Минкин in BY Belarus, CN China, Мінкіна in UA Ukraine and Minkina in PL Poland.
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)
from the Yiddish personal name Minke, a pet form of Mine (see Mindel).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minkin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Минкин | 1 |
| RU Russia | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Минкина | 126 |
| PL Poland | 705as Minkina | 1 in 54K | 392 | Minkina | 49 |
| US United States | 497 | 1 in 669K | 578 | Minkin | 210 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Мінкіна | 23 |
| BY Belarus | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Минкин | 12 |
| IL Israel | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Minkin | 18 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Минкина | 12 |
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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Minkin 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 English, An extinct Minkinan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language of northern Australia, once spoken in the area around Burketown, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, genitive singular of mikin
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)
- Vladimir Minkinb. 1935RURussian chemist
- Bill Minkinb. 1941USAmerican comedian, singer and recording artist
- Eric Minkinb. 1950USBasketball Player
- Charlee Minkinb. 1981USAmerican judoka
- Kelly Minkinb. 1987USAmerican poker player
- Julia MinkinUSAmerican singer
- Shana Minkinhistorian
- Vladimir I. MinkinRUresearcher
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 578 | #40,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 552 | #37,835 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 497 | #43,438 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,803 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #121,903 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Minkin mean, and where does it come from?
- from the Yiddish personal name Minke, a pet form of Mine (see Mindel). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Minkin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪŋkɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Minkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.1 thousand people named Minkin in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled минкин.
- How common is the name Minkin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 497 people named Minkin in 2010, about 1 in 669 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/minkinThe 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, “Minkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.