Mina

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled מינה in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon, Minna in FI Finland, SE Sweden, 민아 in KR South Korea and Мина in RU Russia.

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●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Turkish given name76K records spelled Mina21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Türkiye, India, United States, Afghanistan

  Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

  Also written Minâ, Minä, Mïňa, MiNà, Mïnà

• Japanese given name33K records spelled Mina4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Japan, India, United States, Morocco

  Also written Mi-Na, Min-A, Miña

• a separate given name22K records spelled Mina13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Morocco, Iran

  Also written Mi-Na, Mīnā, MiNà, Min-A, Miñā

• Croatian given name11K records spelled Mina54 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Bulgaria, Serbia, United States, India

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Czech

  Also written Мина, Minna, Míňa, Mína, Miňa

• Finnish given name6.8K records spelled Mina13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Finland, Slovenia, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

  Also written Minä, Mínä, MiNà, Miña, Mïna

• Thai given name5.7K records spelled Mina30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written มีนา, Meena, มินา, มูนา, อมีนา

• Polish given name1.9K records spelled Mina19 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, India, United Kingdom

  Also written Mīñã, Miña, Mïna, Mïñã, Mìñá

59 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●

Mina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, from a personal name based on Arabic minah ‘gifts’, ‘favors’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Portuguese, ethnic name for someone from or who had been to the (Costa da) Mina in Africa.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Alexandria, Buenos Aires

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Romanian, subst. 1. Mlndlungd, V., 1664 (BCI VII 66) ; Hortolomei, mold. 2. Mfndscurld, Lupu, vornic (Isp VI1). 3. Mfneqtergureni s. (Dm). 4. Mlnreci fam., act. prob. < /Mini rect. Mincol v. Mane a 3. *MIND probabil < Mandu < Diamant. 1. Mindescul, Gr. (16 B IV 330) ; - Florea (17 B II 417) etc. 2. Mindacu ar. (Cara 268). 3. Mtnddu, armas, 1667 mart 12 ; -1, t. (C Stef) ; Cf. si Mandan mold.

  as a name·Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc

• In Swedish, Mina är ursprungligen en smekform till → Vilhelmina.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Mina Reesb. 1902USAmerican mathematician (1902–1997)
• Rosa Schärerb. 1924CHnot in their usual nameSwiss singer (1924-2018)
• Meena Kumarib. 1933INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and poet (1933-1972)
• Minab. 1940ITItalian singer (born 1940)
• Mina Ahadib. 1956IRhuman rights activist
• Mina Tanderb. 1978DEGerman actress
• Bang Min-ahb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
• Chanminab. 1998KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-Japanese rapper and singer
• Mina Sundwallb. 2001USAmerican actress
• Meena Bhaskar MahajanINnot in their usual namePh.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1993

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,453 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mina?

We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Mina (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Mina have the most bearers?

Mina is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mina.

Where is Mina most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mina is densest in Finland — about 1 in 190 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.

How common is Mina compared with other names?

In India, Mina is the 49th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.

Is Mina a male or female name?

Mina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Mina mean?

Recorded meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese mina ‘mine’.