Minik

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Minik is a male or female given name .

Origin and meaning

Minik comes from Greenlandic and means “creamy fish oil that is used to seal boats”. The name Minik hit the headlines in 2011 because the third child of the Danish Crown Prince Frederik was christened Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander.

Well-known namesake

  • Minik Dahl Høegh (* 1985), Greenland national handball player
  • Minik Wallace (1887–1918), Inuk, who was abducted with his father and four other relatives in 1897 by the polar explorer Robert Peary for anthropological research in New York

stage name

  • Minik Serçe (German Little Sparrow) is the nickname of the Turkish singer Sezen Aksu

Individual evidence

  1. Minik at nordicnames.de (English)