Meininger

English

Alternative forms

• Mininger

Etymology

Borrowed from German Meininger.

Proper noun

Meininger (plural Meiningers)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Meininger is the 30665^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 760 individuals. Meininger is most common among White (95.39%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Meininger”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 568.

Anagrams

• Meiringen, minigenre

German

Etymology

From Meiningen +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaɪ̯nɪŋɐ]
• Hyphenation: Mei‧nin‧ger

Noun

Meininger m (strong, genitive Meiningers, plural Meininger, feminine Meiningerin)

1. a native or inhabitant of Meiningen

Declension

Declension of Meininger [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Meininger	die	Meininger
genitive	eines	des	Meiningers	der	Meininger
dative	einem	dem	Meininger	den	Meiningern
accusative	einen	den	Meininger	die	Meininger

Adjective

Meininger (indeclinable, no predicative form)

1. (relational) of Meiningen

Usage notes

• Words like this are considered indeclinable adjectives, as noted by Duden, DWDS and other modern German references, but are capitalized because they originated as genitive plurals of substantives. See -er for more.

Proper noun

Meininger m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Meiningers or (with an article) Meininger, feminine genitive Meininger, plural Meiningers or Meininger)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Meininger [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Meininger	(eine)	(die)	Meininger	(die)	Meiningers, Meininger
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Meiningers, Meininger1	(einer)	(der)	Meininger	(der)	Meiningers, Meininger
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Meininger	(einer)	(der)	Meininger	(den)	Meiningers, Meininger
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Meininger	(eine)	(die)	Meininger	(die)	Meiningers, Meininger

¹With an article.

Related terms

• Menninger, Mönninger, Münsinger, Mensinger, Menzinger, Munzinger
• Eininger, Weininger, Wanninger, Henninger