Miñas
surname · Latin script
Miñas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Two main origins for the surname: * Borrowed from Greek Μηνάς (Minás), a patronymic surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Minas or Miñas.
- BRBrazil1 in 125K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.6M
- CRCosta Rica1 in 319K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 65 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
1,692 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Minas in BR Brazil, ES Spain.
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)
- GreekΜηνάςMinás(measured from records)
- Spanish Minasor(measured from records)
- GreekΜηνάςMinás(measured from records)
Two main origins for the surname: * Borrowed from Greek Μηνάς (Minás), a patronymic surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Minas or Miñas. The given name is from Greek Μηνάς (Minás) and Armenian Մինաս (Minas).
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miñas 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,692 | 1 in 125K | 1.7K | Minas | 63 |
| US United States | 581 | 1 in 573K | 581 | — | 65 |
| PL Poland | 87 | 1 in 440K | 44 | — | — |
| PH Philippines | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Miñas | 21 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 1 in 2.6M | 19 | Minas | 11 |
| CR Costa Rica | 16 | 1 in 319K | 16 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 10 | 1 in 547K | 54 | — | 1 |
1,692 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)
Miñas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In fax, feminine plural of mei (“my”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, feminine plural of meu
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 Miñas mean, and where does it come from?
- Two main origins for the surname: * Borrowed from Greek Μηνάς (Minás), a patronymic surname. * Borrowed from Spanish Minas or Miñas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 1 other source.
- In which country does Miñas have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Miñas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minas.
- Where is Miñas most common?
- Miñas is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 125 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Miñas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,692 people named Miñas, about 1 in 125 thousand residents.
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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, “Miñas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.