Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Minos is associated with the king of Crete.
Minos through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 45 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
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- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 7 in 1922.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Minos’s family of names
Minos has a related form in Mynos. In French usage, Minos has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Μίνως. In Greek usage, Minos as a surname is a transliteration of Μήνος.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Minos
- Minos KalokairinosGreek art historian and archaeologist (1843–1907)
- Minos KyriakouGreek businessman (1942-2017)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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