Min
A Korean and Chinese name meaning "clever, quick". In Poland it stays rare and genuinely unisex: of the roughly 120 people who carry it, the men only just outnumber the women.
Min Pronunciation
Min is pronounced MEEN (/min/).
What Min means
Where Min comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Min is short, and it travels light. On a Polish class register it looks unusual, a single syllable among the Zuzannas and Piotrs. Its origins lie outside Slavic and Latin naming, in East Asia, where Korean and Chinese families have long used it.
In Chinese, the character 敏 (mǐn) means quick, sharp, clever of mind. Korean given names build on the syllable 민 in the same spirit. The short meaning that follows the name into Polish, clever and quick, matches that older sense rather than bending it.
The name keeps no diminutive and no separate feminine or masculine form. There is nothing to shorten. That plainness is part of why it reads as modern here, even while it rests on a character scribes were writing centuries ago: 敏, quick and clever.
How many people are named Min
1 in 313915 men in Poland is named Min. 121 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3054 among male names.
Min as a middle name
Min is a first name for 121 men in Poland and a middle name for another 33, a 79/21 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1454th, between Mateus (33) and Naidu (33).
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#1452 Mason33
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#1453 Mateus33
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#1454 Min33
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#1455 Naidu33
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#1456 Nick33