Minga
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: collective work
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/minɡa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 27K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 39K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
14,252 people
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname among Greeks ofAromanian origin, from Aromanian mincu, mingu ‘small child’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Minga is read(measured from records)
Minga is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish49%
collective work
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English24%
A tourist, especially one that comes to climb Uluru.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Swahili6.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Minga in Swahili.
- Portuguese5.0%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Minga in Portuguese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minga 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 14,252 | 1 in 93K | 14K | Minga | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Minga | 16 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Minga | 6 |
| PE Peru | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Minga | 13 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 253 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 60 | 1 in 70K | 60 | — | — |
14,252 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Minga is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname among Greeks ofAromanian origin, from Aromanian mincu, mingu ‘small child’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from a Slavic pet form of the Germanic personal name Meinhardt.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In grt, to name, call by one's personal name (as opposed to one's family name)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bjb, a shrub growing on the sandy coast, and bearing a pod similar to French beans
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)
- Jani Mingab. 1872ALAlbanian politician (1872-1947)
- Albert Mingab. 1946ALAlbanian film director, actor and screenwriter
- Noël Mingab. 1947CGCongolese association football player
- Arben Mingab. 1959ALAlbanian footballer (1959-2007)
- Mehmet MingaTRTurkish writer
- Diego Cusihuamán MingaPEInca nobleman
- Laure Moa MingaCMCameroonian actress
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 26 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 14K | #778 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 253 | #1,752 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 60 | #11,706 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 60 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #4,228 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- Where does the name Minga come from?
- nickname among Greeks ofAromanian origin, from Aromanian mincu, mingu ‘small child’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Minga?
- A machine transcription gives /minɡa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Minga mean?
- In Spanish, collective work
- In which country does Minga have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 14 thousand people named Minga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minga.
- How common is the name Minga?
- In India, the national register counted 14,252 people named Minga, about 1 in 93 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mingaThe 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, “Minga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.