Mini

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Mini is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: short form of any of the many diminutive name forms ending in -mini, for example Giacomini.

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●

short form of any of the many diminutive name forms ending in -mini, for example Giacomini.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mini 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●

  • Hindi115K68%
  • English12K7%
  • Indonesian5.5K3%
  • Spanish4.5K3%
  • Vietnamese3.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi114,96168%
English11,9577%
Indonesian5,5033%
Spanish4,5143%
Vietnamese3,5662%

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◐

Mini is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name11K records spelled Mini9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Mexico, United States, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Minì, Miní, Mini', Mïnï, Mìni

  • a separate given name1.7K records spelled Mini4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Minī, Miní, Miñi

  • a separate given name723 records spelled Mini23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Algeria

    Also written Minì, Mïnī, Mîñï, Mïńî, Mīnï

54 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●

Mini 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 English, Miniature, tiny, small.

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

  • In Slovenian, second-person singular imperative of miniti

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

  • In Serbo-Croatian, second-person singular imperative of minuti

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

  • In Polish, mini (miniature, small, tiny)

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

  • In Catalan, inflection of minar:

    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●

020040060019201940196019802000439 · 1993

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Mini in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2016
Yearrecords
19182
19191
19201
19212
19221
192317
19242
19251
19272
19292
19302
19313
19326
19336
19343
19357
19369
193712
19387
19396
19407
19415
194212
194319
194414
194511
194615
194722
194824
194931
195026
195125
195229
195331
195435
195528
195632
195736
195822
195941
196060
196152
196278
196368
196477
196595
196696
1967108
1968114
1969149
1970150
1971149
1972202
1973179
1974154
1975203
1976177
1977189
1978202
1979205
1980154
1981228
1982256
1983291
1984324
1985313
1986318
1987365
1988277
1989306
1990350
1991427
1992408
1993439
1994416
1995370
1996260
1997234
199882
199925
20002
20021
200826
201038
201218
201313
201438
201530
20161

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1918–2016. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Mini Molly, b. 1953Jahn Ivar Jakobsen, b. 1965Mini Vasudevan, b. 1965Mini Mathur, b. 1969Mini Andén, b. 1978Mini Abismo Negro, b. 1978Mini Histeria, b. 1982Mi Ke-bai, b. 1986Mini Chang, b. 1991

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 44 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Mini
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,379
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—840#660
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—586#2,491
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—526#3,847
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010515#42,163
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020511#45,147
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000508#40,552
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993439—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1991427—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1994416—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992408—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1995370—

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 259 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mini?
We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Mini (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Mini have the most bearers?
Mini is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled mina.
Where is Mini most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mini is densest in Finland — about 1 in 190 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mini compared with other names?
In India, Mini is the 49th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Mini a male or female name?
Mini 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 Mini mean?
Recorded meaning: short form of any of the many diminutive name forms ending in -mini, for example Giacomini.
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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, “Mini” — the 49th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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