Meenu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈminu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Meenu is a given name 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.
- FIFinland1 in 190as Minna(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.7Kas Minah
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 1.7Kas 민아
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 Meenu 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 190 (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 named 민아, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland, as Minna
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
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(measured from records)
Meenu 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 | — | 19,867as Mina | 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 | 4,802as 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: 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 632 | #17,356 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #16,333 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #25,130 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 18 | #26,049 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #32,979 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 12 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 12 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5 | #17,356 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Dictionary of American 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
- How do you pronounce Meenu?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈminu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Meenu a male or female name?
- Meenu 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 Meenu 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 Meenu most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Meenu 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 Meenu?
- In Finland, the national register counted 29,376 people named Minna, about 1 in 190 residents.
- How common is Meenu compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Meenu is the 155th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meenu?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meenuThe 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, “Meenu” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.