Given name & surname
Mignon
“one who is cute and petite”
Mignon is used as a given name and a surname. One French interpretation is “one who is cute and petite.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One French interpretation is “one who is cute and petite.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is French.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mignon through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,239
- 0 boys · 2,239 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 55 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2013. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 55 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,366 as a first name in 2020; 244 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mignon’s family of names
Mignon has a related form in Mignonne. Mignon has a related form in Mignonette. Mignon has a related form in Mingnon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mignon
- Mignon TalbotAmerican paleontologist and geologist (1869-1950)
- Mignon du PreezSouth African cricketer, who was the women's team captainborn 1989
- Mignon McLaughlinAmerican journalist (1913-1983)
- Mignon AndersonAmerican actress (1892-1983)
- Mignon G. Eberhartnovelist (1899–1996)
- Mignon DunnAmerican mezzo-soprano and voice teacher (1928–2026)
- Mignon Holland AndersonAmerican writer (born 1945)
- Mignon Nevadasinger1886–1971
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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