Minija
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Minija is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 860Kas Minge(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 9.4Kas Minge
- JMJamaica≈1 in 75Kas Minge
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 Minija 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 157 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 named Minge, est.
Highest-authority source
Norway, as Minge
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Minge in US United States, DE Germany, NO Norway and 4 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Minija 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Minge | 59 |
| NO Norway | 584as Minge | 1 in 9.4K | 584 | Minge | 14 |
| PL Poland | 472as Minge | 1 in 81K | 238 | Minge | 1 |
| US United States | 387as Minge | 1 in 860K | 430 | Minge | 157 |
| ES Spain | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Minge | 2 |
| AU Australia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 248K | 1 | Minge | 48 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Minge | 1 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Minija 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 Latvian, upe Lietuvā, Nemunas labā krasta pieteka, garums - 213 km, sākas Didova ezerā Žemaitijas augstienē, satekot ar Nemunas atteku Atmatu, veido deltu, Klaipēdas kanāls savieno ar Kuršu jomu
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2004 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Minija a male or female name?
- Minija is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Minija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 654 people named Minge in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Minija most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Minija itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Norway's: the national register counts about 1 in 9.4 thousand people named Minge.
- How common is the name Minija?
- In Norway, the national register counted 584 people named Minge, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Minija?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/minijaThe 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, “Minija”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.