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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname from Old English mynecen ‘nun’ (a derivative of munuc ‘monk’).
  • French : from a diminutive of Picard minche, a dialect form of French mince ‘slender’, ‘thin’.
  • Bulgarian : from a pet form of the female personal name Dimitra, from Greek Dēmētrios (see Demetriou).

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