Minge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a farm name in 0stfold, of obscure etymology
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/mɪnd͡ʒ/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Minge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 81K
- DEGermany≈1 in 120Kfew records
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)habitational name from a farm name in 0stfold, of obscure etymology.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Minge 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Minge | 59 |
| NO Norway | 584 | 1 in 9.4K | 584 | Minge | 14 |
| PL Poland | 472 | 1 in 81K | 238 | Minge | 1 |
| US United States | 387 | 1 in 860K | 430 | Minge | 157 |
| ES Spain | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Minge | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 248K | 1 | Minge | 48 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Minge | 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)Minge is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from a pet form of the personal name Meinhardt.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The pubic hair and vulva.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, altered form of French Munier ‘miller’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of mingō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, third-person singular present indicative 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)- Anna Mercer Mingeb. 1809(1809-1863)
- David Mingeb. 1942USAmerican politician
- Leszek Mingeb. 1958PLPolish ice hockey player
- Ralf Mingeb. 1960DEGerman footballer and manager
- Ewa Mingeb. 1968PLPolish fashion designer
- Siri Mingeb. 1994NOcyclist
- Janina Mingeb. 1999DEfemale german association football player
- Marianne A. MingeNorwegian biologist
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Reference works 6
- 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)
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 Minge mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a farm name in 0stfold, of obscure etymology. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Minge?
- In English /mɪnd͡ʒ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Minge have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 654 people named Minge in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minge.
- Where is Minge most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Minge is densest in Norway — about 1 in 9.4 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Minge?
- In Norway, the national register counted 584 people named Minge, about 1 in 9.4 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/mingeThe 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, “Minge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.