Mina

Where Mina comes from

Borrowed from Arabic مِينَا (mīnā) and Sanskrit मीना (mīnā).
— Wiktionary's entry for Mina
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #175 among girls with 73 babies — 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.