Minto

loc · Latin script

Meaning: ‘person from Minto’, Borders, meaning ‘place by the mountain’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/mɪntoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Minto is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Canada.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia
  • CACanada
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Canada (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
259 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘person from Minto’, Borders, meaning ‘place by the mountain’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Minto counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Minto is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CA Canada——Minto49
AU Australia——Minto93
US United States—1.8KMinto259
GB United Kingdom——Minto147
BR Brazil—956—3
ES Spain—21—6

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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Minto is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Míñtó, Mïñtõ

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Minuto, মিন্টো

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Minto is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • habitational name from a place near Denholm in the Borders, originally named with British minit (cognate with Welsh mynydd ‘hill’), with the later addition of Middle English ho(e} ‘ridge’, ‘hill’ after the original meaning of the first element had been forgotten.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Galician, first-person singular present indicative of mentir

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, past participle of mingere

    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)

18001850190019502000John Minto IV, b. 1822William Minto, b. 1845Antonio Minto, b. 1880Les Minto, b. 1886Gordon Churchill, b. 1898Barbara Minto, b. 1934Jenni Minto, b. 1968Scott Minto, b. 1971Francesco Minto, b. 1987Laura Minto, b. 1994

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 14 countries.

Reference works 7

  • 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)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Minto mean, and where does it come from?
‘person from Minto’, Borders, meaning ‘place by the mountain’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Minto?
A machine transcription gives /mɪntoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Minto have the most bearers?
Minto is most frequently recorded in Canada, where it is most often spelled minto.

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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, “Minto”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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