Meenà
surname · Latin script
Meenà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Finland it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi मीना (mīnā), from Sanskrit मीन (mīna, “fish, synonym of the patron deity Matsya”).
- FIFinland1 in 190as Minna(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 940as Mina
- NONorway1 in 1.1Kas Mina
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 Meenà 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #791 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- 1 in 190 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 named Mina, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland, as Minna
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mina in IN India, US United States, NO Norway and 1 more, 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, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Hindiमीनाmīnā(measured from records)
- Sanskritमीनmīna“fish, synonym of the patron deity Matsya”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi मीना (mīnā), from Sanskrit मीन (mīna, “fish, synonym of the patron deity Matsya”).
Cited for this meaning 4
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Meenà 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #120 | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 939 | 108K | Mina | 236 |
| KR South Korea | #155 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 343 | 민아 | 104 |
| FI Finland | #31 | 29,376as Minna | 1 in 190 | 31K | Minna | 133 |
| US United States | — | 19,867as Mina | 1 in 17K | 17K | Mina | 417 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Mina | 103 |
| NO Norway | #661 | 4,802as Mina | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Mina | 62 |
| SE Sweden | #428 | 4,686as Minna | 1 in 2.2K | 4.7K | Minna | 51 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Meenà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi मीना (mīnā), from Sanskrit मीन (mīna, “fish, synonym of the patron deity Matsya”). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and A concise dictionary of first names and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Meenà have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Mina in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Meenà most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Meenà itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Finland's: the national register counts about 1 in 190 people named Minna.
- How common is the name Meenà?
- In Finland, the national register counted 29,376 people named Minna, about 1 in 190 residents.
- How common is Meenà compared with other names?
- In India, Meenà is the 120th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meen%C3%A0The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Meenà” — the 120th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.