as a Last Name
- 1,283
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Minto
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Denholm in the Borders, originally named with British minit (cognate with Welsh mynydd ‘hill’), with the later addition of Middle English ho(e) ‘ridge’, ‘hill’ after the original meaning of the first element had been forgotten.
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 1,283
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Connecticut
- has the most people named Minto per capita
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