Minko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a derivative of a reduced form of the personal name Dominik (Latin Domenicus)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪnkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- GAGabon≈1 in 5K(inferred from the name graph)
- CMCameroon≈1 in 6.5K
- PLPoland1 in 63K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Gabon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a derivative of a reduced form of the personal name Dominik (Latin Domenicus).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minko 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). 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)
Minko 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 Slovak, diminutive of Marián
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)
- Henri Minkob. 1934GAFrench politician
- Oleg Minkob. 1938UAUkrainian painter post-modernist (1938-2013)
- Christopher Minkob. 1956AUAustralian composer
- Valeri Minkob. 1971RURussian footballer (1971-)
- Serhiy Minkob. 1973KZUkrainian businessman and politician
- Estelle Nze Minkob. 1991FRFrench handball player
- Vladimir Minkob. 1998chess player
- Tamara MinkoUSpharmaceutical researcher
- Sergiy Minkoresearcher
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 306 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 306 | #10,863 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 303 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 303 | #10,769 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 108 | #21 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 7 | #13,677 |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Minko mean, and where does it come from?
- probably a derivative of a reduced form of the personal name Dominik (Latin Domenicus). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Minko?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪnkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Minko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.4 thousand people named Minko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minko.
- How common is the name Minko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 609 people named Minko in 2026, about 1 in 63 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/minkoThe 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, “Minko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.