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Mino

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mino has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 2022. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2022, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Mino, 2024

1 in 557,000

Mino over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mino: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mino means

Mino is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mino is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Mino is pronounced /ˈmi.no/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 boys were recorded with the name Mino between 2022 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2022; its best national rank was #10,501 in 2022.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mino?

Mino had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mino sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Minos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mino was born before 2023 — so the typical Mino is around 2 today.

Median birth year
2023
About 2 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
18
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Mino rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2022 (7)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,501
2022

Spellings of Mino

Mino is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 42.2% against Mino's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mino around the world

Where Mino ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2018–2025
    #5,036
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1969–1969
    #510
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mino by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,501
2022
Peak year
2022
7 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mino

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mino

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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