Mina

given name · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese mina ‘mine’

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈminə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mina 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Mina 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)

≈31,000 named 민아, est.

#791 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

7 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
417 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MinaLatin(measured from records)
מינהHebrew(measured from records)
민아Hangul(measured from records)
МиннаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜηναGreek(measured from records)
მინაGeorgian(measured from records)
ମୀନOdia(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled 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)

habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese mina ‘mine’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mina 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.

Where Mina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KR South Korea#155≈31,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K343민아104
FI Finland#3129,376as Minna1 in 19031KMinna133
US United States—19,8671 in 17K17KMina417
ID Indonesia—≈14,000 est.≈1 in 19KlistedMina103
RO Romania#192≈13,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—מינה16
NO Norway#6614,8021 in 1.1K16KMina62
SE Sweden#4284,686as Minna1 in 2.2K4.7KMinna51

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mina is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Iran, Afghanistan, India

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek

    Also written Minâ, Mïňa, Minä, Mîñâ, Miña

  • Japanese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, India, United States, Morocco

    Also written Mi-Na, Min-A, Miña

  • a separate name13 spellings in the group

    Also written Mīṇā, Miña, Mīna, Miná, Miñā

  • Bulgarian given name54 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Serbia, India, United States

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Мина, Minna, Míňa, Mína, Miňa

  • Hungarian given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Hungary, United States, Finland

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Minä, Miña, Mïna, Mîna, Miñä

  • Thai given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Thailand, India, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written มีนา, Meena, มินา, มูนา, อมีนา

  • Russian given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Мина, Міна, Мйна, Мина́, MiNà

60 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mina is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, from a personal name based on Arabic minah ‘gifts’, ‘favors’.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Portuguese, ethnic name for someone from or who had been to the (Costa da) Mina in Africa.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Alexandria, Buenos Aires

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Romanian, subst. 1. Mlndlungd, V., 1664 (BCI VII 66) ; Hortolomei, mold. 2. Mfndscurld, Lupu, vornic (Isp VI1). 3. Mfneqtergureni s. (Dm). 4. Mlnreci fam., act. prob. < /Mini rect. Mincol v. Mane a 3. *MIND probabil < Mandu < Diamant. 1. Mindescul, Gr. (16 B IV 330) ; - Florea (17 B II 417) etc. 2. Mindacu ar. (Cara 268). 3. Mtnddu, armas, 1667 mart 12 ; -1, t. (C Stef) ; Cf. si Mandan mold.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • In Swedish, Mina är ursprungligen en smekform till → Vilhelmina.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1900195020002050Mina Rees, b. 1902Rosa Schärer, b. 1924Meena Kumari, b. 1933Mina, b. 1940Mina Ahadi, b. 1956Mina Tander, b. 1978Bang Min-ah, b. 1993Chanmina, b. 1998Mina Sundwall, b. 2001
  • Mina Reesb. 1902USAmerican mathematician (1902–1997)
  • Rosa Schärerb. 1924CHnot in their usual nameSwiss singer (1924-2018)
  • Meena Kumarib. 1933INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and poet (1933-1972)
  • Minab. 1940ITItalian singer (born 1940)
  • Mina Ahadib. 1956IRhuman rights activist
  • Mina Tanderb. 1978DEGerman actress
  • Bang Min-ahb. 1993KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and actress
  • Chanminab. 1998KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean-Japanese rapper and singer
  • Mina Sundwallb. 2001USAmerican actress
  • Meena Bhaskar MahajanINnot in their usual namePh.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 1993

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)

Informalनमस्ते Mina जी,Hi Mina, (English)

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)

Attested in 134 sources across 67 countries.

Official registers attesting Mina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202017K#1,608
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16K#285
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.8K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#1,608
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2.9K#850
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.7K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—501#1,084
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025491—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—269—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—36#14,523

Reference works 11

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 Mina mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from any of the numerous places named Mina, La Mina, from Spanish and Portuguese mina ‘mine’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Mina a male or female name?
Mina 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 Mina 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 Mina most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mina is densest in Norway — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though South Korea holds more of our records for it.
What are other forms of the name Mina?
In the etymology graph, Jackie, Vilma and Wilma are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Wilhelmina.
How do you pronounce Mina?
A machine transcription gives /ˈminə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
How common is the name Mina?
In the United States, the national register counted 19,867 people named Mina in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Mina compared with other names?
In South Korea, Mina is the 155th most common given name of 67,037 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mina” — the 155th most common given name in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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