Mina

Where Mina comes from

Borrowed from Arabic مِينَا (mīnā) and Sanskrit मीना (mīnā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mina
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Mina through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #175 among girls with 73 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1940
    Mina born
    Italian singer
  3. 1971
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,212.
  4. 1994
    Mina Tanaka born
    Japanese association football player
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Mina · Italian singer, born 1940
  • Mina Tanaka · Japanese association football player, born 1994
  • Mina Witkojc · Sorbian poet, 1893–1975
  • Mina Ahadi · human rights activist, born 1956
  • Mina El Hammani · Spanish actress, born 1993

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.