Explore the Family Name Mince

The meaning of Mince

1. Altered form of German Mintz. 2. English (Gloucestershire): variant of Mence, a nickname from Middle English mensk ‘honor, goodwill, kindness; honorable, praiseworthy, respectful’. This form of the surname is rare in Britain.

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How common is the last name Mince in the United States?

Based on the Decennial U.S. Census data, the surname Mince has seen a decrease in popularity from 2000 to 2010. In 2000, it was ranked as the 38,395th most popular surname and decreased to the 45,253rd position by 2010, marking a significant drop of nearly 18 percent. The count of people with this surname also reduced from 542 in 2000 to 473 in 2010, indicating a fall of almost 13 percent. The proportion of the Mince surname per 100k people fell by 20 percent during this period.

	2000	2010	Change
Rank	#38,395	#45,253	-17.86%
Count	542	473	-12.73%
Proportion per 100k	0.2	0.16	-20%

Race and Ethnicity of people with the last name Mince

The distribution of the Mince surname among different ethnic identities, based on the Decennial U.S. Census, has also changed over time. While the percentage of individuals identifying as White with this surname showed a minor decrease of 1.36 percent between 2000 and 2010, the Black community saw a substantial increase of 114.19 percent in the same period. Hispanic individuals with the Mince surname experienced a slight growth of 3.25 percent. However, there were no recorded individuals with this surname within the Asian/Pacific Islander and Two or more races categories for both years. The American Indian and Alaskan Native category dropped to zero in 2010 from a negligible 0.92 percent in 2000.

	2000	2010	Change
White	92.8%	91.54%	-1.36%
Hispanic	3.69%	3.81%	3.25%
Black	1.48%	3.17%	114.19%
Asian/Pacific Islander	0%	0%	0%
Two or More Races	0%	0%	0%
American Indian and Alaskan Native	0.92%	0%	0%