Minella
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Minella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of the female personal name Mina, a short form of Guglielmina, Giacomina, etc.
- BRBrazil1 in 363K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 334K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 442K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 334K (inferred from the name graph)
584 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from a pet form of the female personal name Mina, a short form of Guglielmina, Giacomina, etc.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minella 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 584 | 1 in 363K | 584 | Minella | 59 |
| US United States | — | 529 | 1 in 629K | 529 | Minella | 49 |
| AR Argentina | — | 136 | 1 in 334K | 136 | Minella | 27 |
| ES Spain | — | 26 | 1 in 1.9M | 26 | Minella | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | #963 | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 643K | — | Minella | 9 |
584 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Minella is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, de Mino c/ o suf. fem. sing. -ella
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)
- Carlo Bonatto Minellab. 1855ITItalian painter (1855–1878)
- Angiola Minella Molinarib. 1920ITItalian politician
- Jean-Pierre Minellab. 1947FRFrench politician
- Lani Minellab. 1959USAmerican voice actress
- Alain-Gilles Minellab. 1959FRFrench editor, writer and historian (1959–2012)
- Carolina Minellab. 1979ARArgentine singer
- Mandy Minellab. 1985LULuxembourgish female tennis player and politician
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 584 | #14,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 529 | #41,164 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 495 | #46,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 480 | #42,529 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 136 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 26 | #70,463 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 26 | #69,549 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Minella mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the female personal name Mina, a short form of Guglielmina, Giacomina, etc. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Minella have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 584 people named Minella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minella.
- Where is Minella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Minella is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 334 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Minella?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 584 people named Minella, about 1 in 363 thousand residents.
- How common is Minella compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Minella is the 963rd most common surname of 30,328 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minellaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Minella” — the 963rd most common surname in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.