as a Last Name
- 22,685
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Miner
Meaning & Origins
English: occupational name for someone who built mines, either for the excavation of coal and other minerals, or as a technique in the medieval art of siege warfare. The word represents an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French mine ‘mine’ (a word of Celtic origin, cognate with Gaelic mein ‘ore’, ‘mine’).
| 1,601st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 22,685
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Miner per capita
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