Minha
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 137 babies a year in England and Wales.
Minha by the numbers
In 2025, 137 babies in England and Wales were named Minha. In the US, 32 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 39 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Minha
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 Minha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Minafish100 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mishawho is like God; a form of Michael24 in England and Wales (2025)
- Minhbright; intelligent15 in England and Wales (2025)
- Minnawill, desire; or memory, remembrance12 in England and Wales (2025)
- Michawho is like God; a form of Michael31 in the US (2017)
- Minkawill; resolute protector; a form of Wilhelmina21 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Minha
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