Mîc
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mîc is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 9Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NANamibia≈1 in 43K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 47K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 226 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mic in US United States, DE Germany, NG Nigeria and 3 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)- Vulgar Latin*miccus(measured from records)
- Ancient Greekμῑκκόςmīkkós“small”(measured from records)
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. also Sicilian nicu, Calabrian Neapolitan miccu, Corsican micca, also Italian miccino. May also be related to Latin mīca (“crumb”); compare mică.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mîc 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Mic | 19 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Mic | 16 |
| DE Germany | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Mic | 49 |
| IT Italy | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Mic | 15 |
| US United States | 437 | 1 in 761K | 319 | Mic | 226 |
| BE Belgium | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 2 | Mic | 14 |
| NA Namibia | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 43K | 1 | — | 2 |
| XK Kosovo | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 47K | 100 | — | 1 |
| GA Gabon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | — | — |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ECN Government Gazette 8791 — 2025 local authority candidates; Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mîc mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Vulgar Latin *miccus, from Ancient Greek μῑκκός (mīkkós, “small”), variant of μικρός (mikrós). Compare Aromanian njic. Cf. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Mîc a male or female name?
- Mîc is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Mîc have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Mîc in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mic.
- How common is the name Mîc?
- In the United States, the national register counted 437 people named Mîc in 2020, about 1 in 761 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%AEcThe 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, “Mîc”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.