Minnis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of McNeese
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmɪnɪs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minnis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Bahamas it is the 77th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 103K
- BSBahamas≈1 in 12K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 304 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
3,216 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahamas, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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)variant of McNeese.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Minnis 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 | — | 3,216 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Minnis | 304 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Minnis | 109 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Minnis | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 131K | — | Minnis | 57 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 433K | — | Minnis | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Minnis | 57 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Minnis | 21 |
| BS Bahamas | #77 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Minnis | 29 |
3,216 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. 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)Minnis 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 Latvian, Kaķis
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- William Minnisb. 1902IEIrish chess player
- Jack Minnisb. 1922AUAustralian rules footballer
- Paul Minnisb. 1951archaeologist
- John Minnisb. 1953USAmerican politician
- John Minnisb. 1953GBBritish architectural historian (b.1953)
- Karen Minnisb. 1954USAmerican politician
- Anita Minnisb. 1967GBbadminton player
- Snoop Minnisb. 1977USAmerican gridiron football player (born 1977)
- Helen MinnisGBpsychiatrist and academic, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Glasgow University
- Patrick MinnisUSAmerican atmospheric scientist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #10,062 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #11,027 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Minnis mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of McNeese. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Minnis?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪnɪs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Minnis have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Minnis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minnis.
- How common is the name Minnis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,216 people named Minnis in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Minnis compared with other names?
- In the Bahamas, Minnis is the 77th most common surname of 3,175 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minnisThe 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, “Minnis” — the 77th most common surname in Bahamas. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.