Minu

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Minu is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Bangla, written in the Latin script.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Minu 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●

  • Hindi315K85%
  • Bangla27K7%
  • English5.3K1%
  • Indonesian4.6K1%
  • 3.5K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi315,32085%
Bangla26,5767%
English5,3301%
Indonesian4,6361%
3,4781%

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◐

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

  • English given name6.7K records spelled Minu9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Minù, Minú, Mīnū, Miñu

  • a separate given name3.6K records spelled Minu2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Mīnū

  • Finnish given name539 records spelled Minu4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Finland, United States, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Minù

  • Korean given name491 records spelled Minu5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Korea, India, United States

    Also written Min-U, 미누, MinWu, Minú

  • French given name343 records spelled Minu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Minù

  • Turkish given name204 records spelled Minu3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, Iran

    Also written Minü

  • Croatian given name112 records spelled Minu8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Мину, Minû

30 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●

Minu is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In goh, strong masculine/neuter instrumental singular of mīn

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

  • In Czech, first-person singular future indicative of minout

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

  • In Latvian, first-person singular present indicative of minēt

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

  • In Estonian, genitive singular of mina

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

  • In gmq-pro, romanization of ᛗᛁᚾᚢ

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

  • In tzn, to drink

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

02K4K6K1900192019401960198020004.2K · 1992

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Minu in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
18993
19141
19183
19192
19208
19214
19229
192329
19246
19253
19262
19273
19292
19302
19314
19322
19334
19343
19354
19364
19378
19386
19396
194010
194110
194216
194313
194410
194517
194619
194731
194817
194929
195028
195150
195239
195343
195454
195577
1956104
195793
1958135
1959177
1960193
1961211
1962304
1963324
1964395
1965406
1966509
1967659
1968632
1969702
1970881
1971984
19721,139
19731,257
19741,309
19751,525
19761,808
19771,966
19782,158
19792,311
19802,031
19812,793
19822,942
19833,278
19843,326
19853,544
19863,491
19874,010
19883,873
19894,161
19903,946
19913,958
19924,183
19934,067
19943,362
19952,663
19961,642
19971,618
1998901
199954
20003
20012
20072
2008247
2010219
20114
201222
201345
2014383
2015157
20172

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19701980199020002010Minu Barati, b. 1975Lee Min-woo, b. 1976Lee Min-woo, b. 1979Seo Min-woo, b. 1985No Min-woo, b. 1986Park Min-woo, b. 1988Kim Min-woo, b. 1990Cho Min-woo, b. 1992Lee Min-woo, b. 1993Hwang Min-woo, b. 2005
  • Minu Baratib. 1975DEGerman screenwriter and film producer
  • Lee Min-woob. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, 1976
  • Lee Min-woob. 1979KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actor
  • Seo Min-woob. 1985KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer; member of 100%
  • No Min-woob. 1986KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, singer, rapper and musician
  • Park Min-woob. 1988KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
  • Kim Min-woob. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Cho Min-woob. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
  • Lee Min-woob. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean baseball player
  • Hwang Min-woob. 2005KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer

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 36 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Minu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19924.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19894.2K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19934.1K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19874K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19914K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19903.9K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19883.9K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19853.5K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19863.5K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19943.4K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19843.3K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19833.3K—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 250 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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