Mink

At the 2020 census, 5,391 Americans bore the surname Mink — 6,101st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 55,400.

By the numbers

People: 5,391
Rank: 6,101st
How common: 1 in 55,400
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mink described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Mink

Patsy Mink (1927–2002)American politician
Jessica Mink (born 1951)American astronomer and theoretical computing
Paule Mink (1839–1901)French feminist and socialist revolutionary of Polish descent
Claudette Mink (born 1971)Canadian actress

People named Mink with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mink

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.