MiNà
surname · Latin script
MiNà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Finland it is the 31st most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana). MiNà is also written מינה in Hebrew, 민아 in Korean (Hangul) and Минна in Cyrillic.
- INIndia≈1 in 940(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 1.1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 4.3K
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 MiNà 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #791 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 417 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 939 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
MiNà in other scripts: Hebrew, Korean (Hangul), Cyrillic and 3 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Mina in IN India, US United States, NO Norway and 1 more, Minna in FI Finland, SE Sweden and 민아 in KR South Korea.
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)- Hindiमैनाmainā(measured from records)
- Sanskritमदनmadana(measured from records)
Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana).
Cited for this meaning 12
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- African Muslim Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Russian Names
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)MiNà 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #120 | ≈1,500,000 est. | ≈1 in 939 | 108K | Mina | 236 |
| KR South Korea | #155 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 343 | 민아 | 104 |
| FI Finland | #31 | 29,376as Minna | 1 in 190 | 31K | Minna | 133 |
| US United States | — | 19,867 | 1 in 17K | 17K | Mina | 417 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Mina | 103 |
| NO Norway | #661 | 4,802 | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | Mina | 62 |
| SE Sweden | #428 | 4,686as Minna | 1 in 2.2K | 4.7K | Minna | 51 |
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; 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)MiNà 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 Catalan, third-person singular preterite indicative of minar
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)- Gianni Minàb. 1938ITItalian journalist and writer (1938–2023)
- Rosa Maria Minàb. 1968ITItalian archaeologist (born 1968)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name MiNà mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Hindi मैना (mainā)/Urdu مینا (mainā), from Sanskrit मदन (madana). Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and African Muslim Names and 10 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named MiNà?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 million people named MiNà in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mina. After it come South Korea, Finland, United States and Indonesia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name MiNà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,867 people named MiNà in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is MiNà compared with other names?
- In India, MiNà is the 120th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/min%C3%A0The 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, “MiNà” — ranked 173rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.