Mi-Na
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mi-Na 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. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
- INIndia≈1 in 940(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.3K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #791 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 939 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
(measured from records)- Hindiमैनाmainā(measured from records)
- Sanskritमदनmadana(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Cited for this meaning 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | — | 19,867 | 1 in 17K | 17K | Mina | 417 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Mina | 103 |
| 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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hwang Mi-Nab. 1961KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean comics artist
- Han Yeo Woonb. 1984KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Kang Minab. 1999KRSouth Korean singer and rapper, born 1999
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)No register attests this spelling yet
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.
- Which countries have the most people named Mi-Na?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named Mi-Na in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mina. After it come South Korea, Finland, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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 India, Mi-Na is the 120th most common given name of 3,760,348 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 120th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.