مين
surname · Arabic script
Meaning: Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
مين is a surname written in the Arabic script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 75K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 174K
- IRIran≈1 in 175K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
مين 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.
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.
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)
مين is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In apc, who?
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, mean
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)
- Min Chunb. 150not in their usual nameAssistant to Chinese Warlord
- Mindon Minb. 1808MMnot in their usual nameKing of Burma (1808–1878)
- Min Erchangb. 1872not in their usual nameRepublic of China person CBDB = 79146
- Min Guirongb. 1933CNnot in their usual nameChinese thermophysicist
- Min Naibenb. 1935CNnot in their usual nameChinese physicist and politician (1935–2018)
- Yong Soon Minb. 1953USnot in their usual nameAmerican artist (1953–2024)
- Anchee Minb. 1957USnot in their usual nameChinese-American author
- Bun Hay Meanb. 1981FRnot in their usual nameFrench actor
- Min Tae-yulb. 1983KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Grace Minb. 1994USnot in their usual nameUS tennis player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Egyptian Names & Onomastic Intelligence Dataset (Hugging Face Abdullah-afify/egyptian-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 مين mean, and where does it come from?
- Maine (a state of the United States; probably named for the province in France) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does مين have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named مين in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled مين.
- How common is the name مين?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,400 people in Egypt have مين as their first surname, about 1 in 75 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86The 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, “مين”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.