The name Mina has many different origins and meanings. It means ‘azure, enamel’ in Persian and ‘joyful’ in Sanskrit. In ancient Egyptian, Mina stands for a committed or steadfast person. The name is known since at least 3,000 BC.
Mina is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Mina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Mina ranks 628. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Mina. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mina.
The name Mina has many different origins and meanings. It means ‘azure, enamel’ in Persian and ‘joyful’ in Sanskrit. In ancient Egyptian, Mina stands for a committed or steadfast person. The name is known since at least 3,000 BC.
Mina is also a... short form of Wilhelmina, meaning 'vehement protector'.
Mina Caputo (*1973)
Mina Caputo, born Keith Caputo, is a US-American singer. She is best known as the lead singer and founding member of the New York alternative metal band Life of Agony. Caputo came out as transgender in 2011.
Wilhelmina Harker
Wilhelmina »Mina« Harker (née Murray) is a fictional character and the female lead in the creepy horror novel Dracula. Written largely in epistolary form, the chilling novel was published in 1897 by Irish writer Bram Stoker and is about the vampire Count Dracula.
Yerry Fernando Mina González (*1994)
Yerry Fernando Mina González is a Colombian professional soccer player who currently plays for the Italian Serie A club Cagliari Calcio. The centre-back is known to a wider audience for holding the record for the most goals scored by a defender at a World Cup. He scored a total of three goals at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (*1940)
The Italian singer and actress is known as »Mina«. She was a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. She was known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice and her image as an emancipated woman.
When you hear the name Mina, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Mina? Are you also called Mina? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
There are a various places in different states of the U.S. that are called »Mina«, for example in California, Kentucky, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Dakota.
is a Coptic Orthodox monastery. It is located in the western desert of Egypt, near Alexandria.
There is a Filipino community in the province of Iloilo with a population of around 23,500. It bears the name »Mina«.
»Mina« is the name of an ethnic group that lives in Togo and Benin.
»Minna Bluff« is a peninsula of volcanic origin in East Antarctic Victoria Land. It is about 29 miles long and up to 3.5 miles wide.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Mina annualy. This means that there have been girls named Mina who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Mina have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Mina even more than any other time: in 1880, it holds its present record of rank #171 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mina was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Mina has never been ranked higher than #171. In 2022, she rivaled the 542 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 486 girls named Mina were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Mina were born, there have been 71 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With four letters, the name Mina is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Mina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mina, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mina
Mina
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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N
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
N
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mina sounds like this:
