Meenu
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Meenu is a female given name 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. Meenu is also written מינה in Hebrew, 민아 in Korean (Hangul) and Минна in Cyrillic.
- 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 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.
- 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
Meenu in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Korean (Hangul) and 4 more
(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
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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Meenu a male or female name?
- Meenu is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Meenu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Mina in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come South Korea, Finland, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 India, Meenu is the 120th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Meenu?
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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” — ranked 173rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.