Mimosa
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Finnish: misspelling of mimoosa (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries
/mɪˈmoʊ.sə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Mimosa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Angola than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 2K(measured from records)
- VNVietnam≈1 in 220Kfew records
- SESweden1 in 222K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Angola (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mimosa
- English:/mɪˈmoʊ.sə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- French:/mi.mo.za/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/mimosa/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/mimɔzɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)misspelling of mimoosa
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Mimosa is read
(measured from records)Mimosa is one spelling over 6 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Finnish74%
misspelling of mimoosa
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English31%
A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mimosa in French.
- Spanish12%
Mimosa (plant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese9.0%
mimosa (any plant belonging to the genus Mimosa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Vietnamese8.6%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Mimosa in Vietnamese.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mimosa 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.
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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)Mimosa 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.
In Italian, mimosa (plant and tree)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, MIMÓZĂ, mimoze, s. f. Numele mai multor specii de plante erbacee exotice din familia leguminoaselor, cu frunze compuse și cu flori mici, roz sau albe, dispuse în capitule sau spice, foarte sensibile când sunt atinse (Mimosa); spec. senzitivă (Mimosa pudica); p. restr. floarea acestor plante.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)- Mimosa Campironib. 1986ITItalian actress and singer
- Mimosa Willamob. 1994FIFinnish actress
- Mimosa Jallowb. 1994FIFinnish swimmer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mimosa mean, and where does it come from?
- misspelling of mimoosa Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mimosa?
- It depends on the language: in English /mɪˈmoʊ.sə/ (Wiktionary); in French /mi.mo.za/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /mimosa/; in Portuguese /mimɔzɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Mimosa a male or female name?
- Mimosa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Mimosa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Mimosa in Angola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mimosa. After it come Finland, Italy, Vietnam and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mimosa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mimosa is densest in Finland — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though Angola holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mimosa?
- In Finland, the national register counted 2,842 people named Mimosa, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mimosaThe 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, “Mimosa” — ranked 436th in Angola (Wikidata humans by citizenship). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.