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The MINK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 5,590 5689 0.002 21
United States (1880 census) 1,414 4034 0.003 28
Change since 1880 +4176 -1655 -0.001 -7
Other Countries
Australia 15 65014 0 1
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for MINK by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 592 1018 0.015 146
Tennessee 376 2293 0.007 66
Ohio 369 3911 0.003 33
California 367 7637 0.001 11
Florida 305 6626 0.002 19
Top States for MINK by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Kentucky 592 1018 0.015 146
Idaho 108 1735 0.008 83
Tennessee 376 2293 0.007 66
Indiana 266 3020 0.004 44
Oklahoma 135 3500 0.004 39

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MINK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MINK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MINK in Kentucky than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MINK by picking someone at random in Kentucky than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MINK

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MINK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MINK in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 72 1.29
Black/African American 68 1.22
White (Hispanic) 63 1.13
Native American/Alaskan 55 0.98
Asian/Pacific 31 0.55
White (Caucasian) 5,301 94.83

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MINK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of MINK in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of MINK.

Similar names to MINK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MINK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for MINK

The following words are slight variants of MINK that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.