Minn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet-form of a woman’s name, perhaps Ameline, Emeline, or Ismenia; first attested Minna 1202 AssBeds
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Myanmar (Burma) it is the 70th most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 159K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- PLPoland1 in 19M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- 1 in 159K (inferred from the name graph)
309 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet-form of a woman’s name, perhaps Ameline, Emeline, or Ismenia; first attested Minna 1202 AssBeds
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minn 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 | — | 309 | 1 in 1.1M | 372 | Minn | 49 |
| FI Finland | — | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
| MM Myanmar (Burma) | #70 | — | — | — | Minn | 55 |
| MY Malaysia | — | — | — | — | Minn | 8 |
309 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Minn is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Minne. This seems to have been in origin a Gmc personal name from OHG minna love, but in the late Middle Ages it
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In li, European chub (Leuciscus cephalus, now Squalius cephalus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Icelandic, my, mine (used referring to someone/something masculine)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of minne
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Luxembourgish, mine (excavation)
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)
- Empress Myeongseongb. 1851KRnot in their usual nameEmpress Consort of Korea (1851–1895)
- Aleksandr Pavlovich Minb. 1915UAnot in their usual nameSoviet military personnel (1915-1944)
- Min Byung-daeb. 1918KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer (1918-1983)
- Min Gyeong-jinb. 1955KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Min Hee-jinb. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean art director (born 1979)
- Min Young-wonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Min Jin-woongb. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Justin H. Minb. 1989USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
- Sugab. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, record producer and songwriter
- Min Do-heeb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer actress (born 1994)
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 20 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 372 | #58,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 309 | #64,388 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 301 | #62,236 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #30,878 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #361,659 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Minn mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet-form of a woman’s name, perhaps Ameline, Emeline, or Ismenia; first attested Minna 1202 AssBeds Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Minn?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Minn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 309 people named Minn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minn.
- Where is Minn most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Minn is densest in Finland — about 1 in 159 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Minn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 309 people named Minn in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Minn compared with other names?
- In Myanmar (Burma), Minn is the 70th most common surname of 12,945 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minnThe 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, “Minn” — the 70th most common surname in Myanmar (Burma). Data snapshot 2026-10-10.