Miskinis
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name from miskinis ‘forest’, ‘forest spirit’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mʲɪskɪnʲɪs/(machine-generated) Lithuanian · model-generated
Miskinis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 152K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 650Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 838K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
236 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)topographic name from miskinis ‘forest’, ‘forest spirit’. This name is also established in Poland.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Miskinis is found
(measured from records)Miskinis 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 | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 263 | Miskinis | 99 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 645K | — | Miskinis | 15 |
| NO Norway | 36 | 1 in 152K | 36 | — | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 25 | 1 in 8.5M | 25 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Miskinis | 12 |
| DK Denmark | 7 | 1 in 838K | 7 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 896K | — | Miskinis | 4 |
| GY Guyana | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 207K | — | Miskinis | 1 |
236 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 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Miskinis come from?
- topographic name from miskinis ‘forest’, ‘forest spirit’. This name is also established in Poland. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miskinis?
- In Lithuanian /mʲɪskɪnʲɪs/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Miskinis mean?
- Recorded meaning: topographic name from miskinis ‘forest’, ‘forest spirit’.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Miskinis?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 236 people named Miskinis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miskinis. After it come United Kingdom, Norway, Brazil and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Miskinis most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miskinis is densest in Norway — about 1 in 152 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Miskinis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 236 people named Miskinis in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Miskinis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miskinisThe 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, “Miskinis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.