Meena

surname · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Meena is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 190◐
  • INIndia1 in 628
  • KRSouth Korea1 in 971

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈74K ●

across 9 countries

#554 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
359 ●

2.5M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 190 ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MinaLatin · Hindi●3.2M records
מינהHebrew · Hebrew●41K records
민아Hangul · Korean●40K records
МинаCyrillic · Russian●9.3K records
ᲛინაGeorgian · Georgian●330 records
ΜιναGreek · Greek●123 records
মিনBengali · Bangla●31 records
มินอThai · Thai●25 records
ମନOdia · Odia●16 records
මීනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mina in IN India, US United States, FR France and 18 more, מינה in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon, Minna in FI Finland, SE Sweden and 민아 in KR South Korea.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa. Often a short form of Meenakshi (‘having eyes shaped like a fish’),the name of a princess of Madurai, now its patron goddess and commonly identified with Durga, the wife of Shiva.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Meena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#494,775,3312.1M rec.—108KMina219
KR South Korea#17065,00031K rec.—181K민아98
IL Israel#34533,93034K rec.—882מינה30
FI Finland#10129,376△7.3K rec.1 in 19031KMinna110
US United States—20,847170K rec.1 in 16K21KMina359
DE Germany#93512,16412K rec.—2Mina133
GB United Kingdom—9,07710K rec.—9Mina117
PH Philippines—8,72235K rec.——Mina75
RU Russia—8,3624.3K rec.—#415Мина104
AU Australia—8,1099.1K rec.—3Mina145
MY Malaysia#6947,9743.8K rec.——Minah31
FR France#8717,35533K rec.1 in 9.2K7.4KMina271

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi630K70%
  • 176K20%
  • Sinhala23K3%
  • English21K2%
  • Bangla14K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi629,58870%
176,25620%
Sinhala23,3713%
English21,0272%
Bangla14,0582%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Meena is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate surname183K records spelled Meena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Meena'

  • English surname83K records spelled Meena18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, Tanzania

    Languages: English, Dutch

    Also written Mee-Na, Mêêñã, Mėėņã, Méénâ, Mèénä

  • Thai given name7.5K records spelled Meena30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written มีนา, Mina, มินา, มูนา, อมีนา

  • German surname2.0K records spelled Meena2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Germany, Tanzania, United States

    Also written Měéňã

  • French surname1.7K records spelled Meena7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, United States, Tanzania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mee-Na, Męėńā, Méena, Méëñã, Mééna

  • Swedish surname1.0K records spelled Meena9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Mèéñá, Meenaa, Mëéñaa, Mëéñå

  • Turkish surname915 records spelled Meena4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Tanzania, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Mëêñã

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Meena is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • a blue-colored precious stone, a bird

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • In English, A member of a certain tribe of Rajasthan, India.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

020406019701980199020002010202054 · 2008

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Meena in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1965–2025
Yearrecords
19656
19675
19686
197011
19717
19728
19737
197412
19759
19769
197715
197820
197917
198013
198114
198217
198311
198417
198519
19866
198716
198824
198912
199014
199115
199217
199322
199429
199528
199628
199719
199830
199928
200032
200132
200238
200340
200449
200542
200650
200741
200854
200941
201037
201136
201240
201342
201441
201526
201645
201743
201847
201935
202039
202143
202246
202354
202436
202540

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 59 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 51 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Meena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—108K#173
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—22K#277
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—13K#104
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.8K#3,978
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020262#78,629
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—244#4,132
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025214#383
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010201#91,625
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000172#97,848
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—161#6,118
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020107—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—76#6,414

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 188 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Meena?
We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Meena (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Meena have the most bearers?
Meena is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mina.
Where is Meena most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Meena is densest in Finland — about 1 in 190 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Meena compared with other names?
In India, Meena is the 49th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
What does the name Meena mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Meena” — the 49th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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