Miskin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From a medieval nickname for a young man, from Anglo-Norman meschin; (ii) a variant of Mishkin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɪskɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miskin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 169K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 247K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) From a medieval nickname for a young man, from Anglo-Norman meschin; (ii) a variant of Mishkin.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miskin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Miskin | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 509K | listed | — | — |
| US United States | 451 | 1 in 738K | 512 | Miskin | 33 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Miskin | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Miskin | 4 |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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)
Miskin 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, from Old French meschin ‘young man’; first attested William le Meschin 1161 P (Wa).
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
patronymic from the male personal name Miske, a pet form of Michael.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A little bagpipe.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, poor, needy, unfortunate, impoverished
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, idle; tending to sloth
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)
- Hendrik Miskinb. 1900NLDutch politician
- Nigel Monckton Miskinb. 1921GB(1921-2004)
- James Miskinb. 1925CNBritish barrister and judge
- Michael Miskinb. 1954SRSurinamese union leader and politician
- Rosamond Anne Elizabeth Monckton Miskinb. 1954GB(born 1954)
- Luka Miskinb. 2002AUAustralian biathlete
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 512 | #45,060 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 451 | #47,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 420 | #47,485 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #41,627 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Miskin mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From a medieval nickname for a young man, from Anglo-Norman meschin; (ii) a variant of Mishkin. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Miskin?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪskɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Miskin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Miskin in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miskin.
- How common is the name Miskin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 451 people named Miskin in 2010, about 1 in 738 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miskinThe 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, “Miskin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.