민아

given name · Hangul script

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

민아 is a given name written in the Hangul script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. In Finland it is the 31st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 190as Minna
  • RORomania≈1 in 1.7Kas Minah

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than 민아 itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

South Korea (inferred from the name graph)

≈31,000 people, est.

#791 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
417 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

South Korea, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

민아Hangul(measured from records)
MinaLatin(measured from records)
מינהHebrew(measured from records)
МиннаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜηναGreek(measured from records)
მინაGeorgian(measured from records)
ମୀନOdia(measured from records)

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mina in US United States, NO Norway, ID Indonesia, Minna in FI Finland, SE Sweden and מינה in RO Romania.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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 across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

민아 counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where 민아 is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#155≈31,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K343민아104
FI Finland#3129,376as Minna1 in 19031KMinna133
US United States—19,867as Mina1 in 17K17KMina417
ID Indonesia—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 19KlistedMina103
RO Romania#192≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—מינה16
NO Norway#6614,802as Mina1 in 1.1K16KMina62
SE Sweden#4284,686as Minna1 in 2.2K4.7KMinna51

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Supreme Court — newborn given names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Lee Min-ah, b. 1959Shim Mina, b. 1972Lee Min-a, b. 1976Shin Min-a, b. 1984Cho Ha-rang, b. 1984Lee Min-a, b. 1991Bang Min-ah, b. 1993Kwon Mina, b. 1993Jung Min-ah, b. 1994Kang Min-ah, b. 1997
  • Lee Min-ahb. 1959KRnot in their usual nameKorean-American lawyer and pastor
  • Shim Minab. 1972KRSouth Korean singer
  • Lee Min-ab. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Shin Min-ab. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean model and actress, born 1984
  • Cho Ha-rangb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Lee Min-ab. 1991KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean footballer
  • Bang Min-ahb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
  • Kwon Minab. 1993KRSouth Korean singer
  • Jung Min-ahb. 1994KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
  • Kang Min-ahb. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean film actress, born 1997

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(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting 민아
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2012619#62
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2013614#61
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2014609#65
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2015558#75
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2011539#74
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2016469#80
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2010418#99
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2017389#94
KR South KoreaSupreme Court — newborn given names2018343#91

Reference works 1

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is 민아 a male or female name?
민아 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.
In which country does 민아 have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named 민아 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 민아.
How common is the name 민아?
In Finland, the national register counted 29,376 people named Minna, about 1 in 190 residents.
How common is 민아 compared with other names?
In South Korea, 민아 is the 155th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “민아” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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