Entry № 6876 · Persian origin

Mina Mina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Persian
Meaning
"Lapis lazuli / love (a multinational name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Persian)

A name that means "lapis lazuli / love (a multinational name)".

Mina has independent roots across at least four cultures: Persian (مینا, minā — lapis lazuli, blue glass, or enamel); Japanese (美奈 — beautiful + apple tree); Korean (미나 — beautiful + sprout); and German (a short form of Wilhelmina or Hermine). A top-1000 US baby name since 2018. Mina Kawano — Olympic swimmer. "Mina" in Arabic (منى) means "wishes, desires."

Lapis lazuli / love.

The name in its native script.

مینا
Transliteration
Mīnā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mina stands.

Mina does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Minas before her.

Real people
Mina (TWICE)
K-pop singer.
born 1997
Mina Mazzini
Italian pop queen.
born 1940
In fiction
Mina Harker
Stoker's Dracula.
1897

Names connected to Mina.

The number behind Mina.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mina reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.