Minna

Where Minna comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Minna.

  • Vowel-ended
Minna through the years
  1. 1844
    Minna Canth born
    Finnish writer, editor
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among girls, with 17 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1889
    Peak, #368
    43 babies named Minna, its best rank.
  4. 1903
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #760.
  5. 1982
    Minna Kauppi born
    Finnish orienteer
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Minna Canth · Finnish writer, editor, 1844–1897
  • Minna Kauppi · Finnish orienteer, born 1982
  • Minna Nieminen · Finnish rower, born 1976
  • Minna Aaltonen · Finnish actress, 1966–2021
  • Minna Gombell · American actress, 1892–1973

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.