59%RatingSave Gender Feminine Usage Literature Pronounced Pron. /mi.ɲɔ̃/(French) [key·simplify] 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 Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1796). PopularityDetails Last ranked #867 in 1897 United States People think this name isRate·Details classic youthful upper class natural delicate refined strange Categories beauty, beloved, currently out of the US top 1000, food, French words, literature, opera, word names