Chinese surnames

闵

mǐn · Min

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 132
Ancestral seat (junwang)
陇西
Wikidata
Q512778

In other languages

  • German Min
  • English Min
  • Spanish Min
  • French Min
  • Japanese 閔
  • Korean 민
  • Russian Минь
  • Vietnamese Mẫn
  • Traditional Chinese 閔

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Mindon Min1808 – 1878

    King of Burma (1808–1878)

  • Min Sun536 BCE – 480 BCE

    prominent disciple of Confucius (536–c.487 BC)

  • Min Zhen1730 – 1788

    Chinese painter (1730-1788)

  • Min Chun150 – 191

    Assistant to Chinese Warlord

  • Min Enze1924 – 2016

    Chinese chemist

  • Min Naiben1935 – 2018

    Chinese physicist and politician (1935–2018)

  • Min Xu900 – 886

    warlord

  • Min Guirong1933 – 2021

    Chinese thermophysicist

  • Kian1566 – 1653

    Japanese tea master and priest

  • Min Gyu-ho1836 – 1878
  • Yong Soon Min1953 – 2024

    American artist (1953–2024)

Find printed genealogies

The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).