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Minkus

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish : perhaps from a reduced form of the personal name Dominik (Latin Domenicus).
  • Polish : alternatively perhaps a nickname from Polish minka ‘person who used to pull faces’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : metronymic from the personal name Minke (see Minkin).

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