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mink Name Meaning and History

  1. Czech: from a reduced form of the personal name Dominik (see Domingo).
  2. North German and Dutch: from a pet form of the personal name Mein.
  3. Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch menke, minke ‘physical defect’, ‘infirmity’, ‘mutilation’.
  4. German: variant of Minke 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of mink Families in the US in 1920
Number of mink families
 51-100
 18-50
 1-17
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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