61%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Literature Pronounced Pron. MEE-NYAWN(French) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Means "cute, darling" in French. This is the name of a character in Ambroise Thomas's opera Mignon (1866), which was based on a novel by Goethe. PopularityDetails Last ranked #867 in 1897 United States People think this name isRate·Details classic youthful formal upper class natural delicate refined strange Categories beautiful, beauty, beloved, currently out of the US top 1000, food, French word names, literature, opera, word names