Meena
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Meena 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. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa.
- 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 Meena 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(measured from records)
Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa. Often a short form of Meenakshi (‘having eyes shaped like a fish’),the name of a princess of Madurai, now its patron goddess and commonly identified with Durga, the wife of Shiva.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Meena 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Meena 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.
a blue-colored precious stone, a bird
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
In English, A member of a certain tribe of Rajasthan, India.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James Meenab. 1951USMusic conductor and opera manager
- P. Rosy Meenab. 1997INIndian pole vaulter
- Laxman MeenaINIndian politician
- Nikhil Meenaresearcher
- Santosh Kumar MeenaINresearcher
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 51 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 262 | #78,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 201 | #91,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 172 | #97,848 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #31,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- What does the name Meena mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘fish’, ‘Pisces’; name of the daughter of the goddess of the dawn, and 301 of the wife of the ancient sage Kasyapa. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Meena 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 Meena most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Meena 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 Meena?
- In Finland, the national register counted 29,376 people named Minna, about 1 in 190 residents.
- How common is Meena compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Meena is the 155th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/meenaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Meena” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.