Mina

A girls’ name of Persian origin, meaning fish.

Babies a year
100
England and Wales, 2025
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#597
up from #608
UK popularity
#408
100 babies · up from #493

How Mina has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#522#674#826201520202025#597

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#763
2016#744
2017#703
2018#625
2019#683
2020#661
2021#590
2022#611
2023#585
2024#608
2025#597

Mina by the numbers

In 2025, 100 babies in England and Wales were named Mina. In the US, 426 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.

Its American peak was 410 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

At its height, in 1880, about 1 in 1,300 American girls born that year was called Mina.

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Mina as a share of American girls born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mina. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Miamine; also a form of Maria13,453 in the US (2017)
  • Milagracious, dear1,014 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Mirawonderful, admirable135 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Miyatemple, shrine258 in the US (2017)
  • Mikawho is like God; a form of Micah232 in the US (2017)
  • Monasolitary or alone116 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Mina

Names that are said the same way as Mina, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Minnawill, desire; or memory, remembrance12 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Minnahfish; from Hebrew minnah18 in the US (2017)
  • Minah8 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Myna7 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Mina

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