Minina
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries
/mɪninə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 8.6Kas Минина(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 34Kas Мініна
- LVLatvia≈1 in 66K
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 Minina 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 named Минина, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Минина in RU Russia, BY Belarus, FI Finland and 1 more, Мініна in UA Ukraine and Минин in IN India.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Minina 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #491 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Минина | 154 |
| BY Belarus | #340 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Минина | 20 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Мініна | 26 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Minina | 3 |
| IN India | — | 309as Minin | 1 in 4.3M | 309 | Минин | 4 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Minina | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 78 | 1 in 71K | 78 | Минина | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Минина | 6 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Minina | 10 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)Minina 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 Spanish, kitty (cat)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Veronika Mininab. 1955EEEstonian athletics competitor (born 1955)
- Yuliya MininaUSUkrainian-American pianist
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 78 | #15,565 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Minina?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪninə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Minina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Минина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Minina?
- In Finland, the national register counted 78 people named Minina, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
- How common is Minina compared with other names?
- In Russia, Minina is the 491st most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Minina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mininaThe 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, “Minina” — the 491st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.