Mi-Na
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mi-Na 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
- 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 Mi-Na 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)
- Hindiमैनाmainā(measured from records)
- Sanskritमदनmadana(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Sources 12
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mi-Na 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yu Minab. 1951KRSouth Korean actress
- Hwang Mi-Nab. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comics artist
- Son Mi-nab. 1964KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean handball player
- Sohn Mi-nab. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean writer
- Yoon Mi Nab. 1972KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Shin Mi-nab. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean poet
- Lee Mi-nab. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean voice actress
- Han Yeo Woonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kang Minab. 1999KRSouth Korean singer and rapper, born 1999
- Meena HwangKRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean conductor
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Mi-Na mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and African Muslim Names and 10 other sources.
- Is Mi-Na a male or female name?
- Mi-Na 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 Mi-Na 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 Mi-Na most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mi-Na 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 Mi-Na?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,867 people named Mi-Na in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Mi-Na compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Mi-Na 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/mi-naThe 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, “Mi-Na” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.