Origin and popularity of the name MINIER

Origin

Minier : 1: French: occupational name from Old French minier ‘miner’; or a topographic name for someone who lived by a mine Old French minier or a habitational name from a place called with this word. The surname Minier is also found in Germany (see Minear) where it is very rare.2: Altered form of French Mignier a variant of 1 above. Compare Meunier 2.3: Spanish: possibly a Castilianized form of French Meunier.

Minion : 1: Irish (Tyrone): variant of Moynihan.2: French: occupational name for a miner from a diminutive of minier ‘miner’ (see Minier). This surname is very rare in France; in North America it may thus (also) be an altered form of some other similar (like-sounding) French surname such as Mignon.

Miron : 1: Spanish (Mirón): from mirón a derivative of mirar ‘to look’ (from Latin mirare) possibly a nickname in the sense ‘nosy inquisitive’.2: Spanish and Catalan: Castilianized form (Mirón) of Catalan Miró (see Miro).3: Romanian: from the personal name Miron Greek Myrōn (from myron ‘myrrh’).4: French Canadian: shortened form of French Migneron itself derived from Mignier an occupational name from minier ‘miner’. Compare Mero 5 and Merrow 4.5: French: from a diminutive of Mire 2 ‘physician’.6: In some cases possibly also an American shortened form of Greek patronymics from the personal name Miron Myrōn (see 3 above and Myron).

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