Miná
surname · Latin script
Meaning: myna
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Miná is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country. In Finland it is the 31st most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 17K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 19K
- FIFinland1 in 190as Minna
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 Miná 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)
- #791 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named 민아, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Mina in US United States, NO Norway, ID Indonesia, Minna in FI Finland, SE Sweden, 민아 in KR South Korea 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(measured from records)
myna
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miná 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #155 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 343 | 민아 | 104 |
| FI Finland | #31 | 29,376as Minna | 1 in 190 | 31K | Minna | 133 |
| US United States | — | 19,867 | 1 in 17K | 17K | Mina | 417 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Mina | 103 |
| RO Romania | #192 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | מינה | 16 |
| NO Norway | #661 | 4,802 | 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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miná is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In bnt-ngu-pro, First-person singular absolute pronoun.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miná mean, and where does it come from?
- myna Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Miná have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named 민아 in South Korea, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Miná most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miná is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Miná?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,867 people named Miná in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Miná compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Miná is the 155th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/min%C3%A1The 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, “Miná” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.