Minah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 8 babies a year in England and Wales.
Minah by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Minah. In the US, 12 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 19 babies in 2013, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Minah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Minah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Micahwho is like God3,924 in the US (2017)
- Minafish100 in England and Wales (2025)
- Miahwho is like God; a modern respelling of Micah342 in the US (2017)
- Mikahwho is like God; a form of Micah176 in the US (2017)
- Minhbright; intelligent15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Minnahfish; from Hebrew minnah18 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Minah
Names that are said the same way as Minah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
Names about as common as Minah
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