Minah

Where Minah comes from

The dictionaries list Minah as a given name — a female given name from Arabic — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1997
    First appearance
    #10,836 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2013
    Peak, #6,255
    20 babies named Minah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2014
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #11,931.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Arabic.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Minah hasn't yet.

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.