Mineta

surname · Latin script

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

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

Mineta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 5M(measured from records)

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

42 people

Sources
25 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.0M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Lithuanian

Tai žmonių vartojamosios pavardės Minuta (žr.) dokumentinė lytis.

Sources 2

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mineta 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 Mineta is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil421 in 5M42Mineta25
US United States———Mineta8
SI Slovenia——5——
GY Guyana——3——
AT Austria——3——

42 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); SURS — resident population given names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Mineta is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Minéta

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Минета

28 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)

Mineta is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Polish, cunnilingus, act of oral sex performed on a woman

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, ( L-ain, S; Urt Gram 22 ( -ñ- ) , Lar , Izt C 46, Gèze , Lcq 140 ( -ñ- ) , Dv , H (+ -ñ- ) ), minata Ref.: Alth Bot 16; A . Acedera. "Oxalis, petite oseille, barrabas-belharra . [...] Guk haurrean minata erraten ginion" Zerb GH 1931, 326. Frikandaua mingotxetan edo minetetan . ECocin 8. Garbi zaitzu minatak eta egos . Ib. 23. Tipula gorritu denian, emazu minata ongi xehaturik . Ib. 23.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Lithuanian, Tai žmonių vartojamosios pavardės Minuta (žr.) dokumentinė lytis.

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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)

19201940196019802000Norman Mineta, b. 1931Kazunobu Mineta, b. 1977Hiromu Mineta, b. 1997Katsuhiko Mineta, b. 2000

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)

FormalMineta様Dear Mineta-san, (English)
Informalこんにちは、MinetaさんHi Mineta, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Mineta
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—42#118,404

Reference works 3

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

How do you pronounce Mineta?
A machine transcription gives /mɪˈneɪtə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
In which country does Mineta have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 42 people named Mineta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mineta.
Where is Mineta most common?
Mineta is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.0 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Mineta?
In Brazil, the national register counted 42 people named Mineta, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.

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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, “Mineta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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