Mino
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: man, especially an attractive one
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mino/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mino is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K
- CLChile≈1 in 8.7K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
42,948 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Miño in AR Argentina, CL Chile, EC Ecuador and 1 more.
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)
1 . Galiciam, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish (Mino): habitational name from any of several places in Galicia, Asturies, and Soria called Mino, which take their name from the Mino river on which they stand. 2. Japanese (rare): variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘three fields’, though the actual meaning is ‘straw raincoat’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mino is read(measured from records)
Mino is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish54%
man, especially an attractive one
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English23%
A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Mino 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #190 | 42,948 | 1 in 1.1K | 43K | Miño | 60 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Mino | 8 |
| EC Ecuador | #466 | 6,198 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.2K | Miño | 38 |
| CL Chile | #525 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | 1 | Miño | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Mino | 24 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 669 | 1 in 5.1K | 669 | Miño | 14 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 30 | — | — |
42,948 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
Mino is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
1 . Galiciam, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish (Mino): habitational name from any of several places in Galicia, Asturies, and Soria called Mino, which take their name from the Mino river on which they stand. 2. Japanese (rare): variously written, usually with characters meaning ‘three fields’, though the actual meaning is ‘straw raincoat’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Italian, redução popular e coloquial de nomes e sobrenomes terminados em -mino/-mio
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In French, alternative spelling of minot (“kid”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Cebuano, a magic spell cast, by a supernatural being, to confuse, disorient or make people lose their way
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)
- Masaichi Minob. 1912JPJapanese politician
- Shigekazu Minob. 1923JPJapanese businessman
- Yoshimi Minob. 1931JPJapanese politician (1931-2020)
- Masahiro Minob. 1942JPJapanese nonfiction writer (1942-)
- Kazuo Minob. 1949JPeconomist (Doshisha University; Kyoto University)
- Hiroshi Minob. 1949JPJapanese teacher
- Kōichi Minob. 1949JPJapanese writer and pastor
- Katsuhiro Minob. 1971JPJapanese baseball player
- Yukako Minob. 1973JPJapanese actress
- Yūdai MinoJPJapanese voice actor
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 52 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 669 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 203 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 1 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Mino come from?
- 1 . Galiciam, Asturian-Leonese and Spanish (Mino): habitational name from any of several places in Galicia, Asturies, and Soria called Mino, which take their name from the Mino river on which they sta… Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mino?
- A machine transcription gives /mino/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Mino mean?
- In Spanish, man, especially an attractive one
- In which country does Mino have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Mino, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miño.
- Where is Mino most common?
- Mino is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mino?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 42,948 people named Mino, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Mino compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Mino is the 190th most common surname of 398,256 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mino?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minoThe 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, “Mino” — the 190th most common surname in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.