min Family History Facts 1920

min Name Meaning and History

Korean: there is only one Chinese character used for the Min surname. There is a legend that the Min clan’s founding ancestor, Ch’ing-do, was a descendant of Ch’a kon, one of the ten disciples of Confucius. Ch’ing-do, an emissary from China to the Koryo kingdom, decided to stay and settled in the Yohung area. The surname Min can be found throughout Korea, but it is particularly concentrated in Cholla and Kyongsang provinces.
Chinese : the source of this name was the character’s former meaning, ‘sympathy for those who die young’. The descendants of various people who died young adopted Min as their surname.
Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch minne ‘beloved’, ‘sweetheart’.
Dutch: from a reduced form of the personal name Dominicus (see Dominick).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Obit: Joyce H. MIN (nee TERRY): born c1939, died 2002 IN, USA	Trish_Bliss02	1