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Mina (given name)

Mina is a given name with a variety of origins.

Egypt

Mina, Mena or Meina (Coptic: Μήνης) is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians.

Mina in the Coptic language (derived from ancient Egyptian language) means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined.

Mina (fl. c. 3100 BC), a.k.a. Menes, legendary Egyptian ruler and the first pharaoh of Egypt.
St. Mina (Saint Menas; fl. 3rd century AD), Coptic religious leader (martyr)
Mina, son of Apacyrus (fl. 749 AD), one of the leaders of the Bashmurian revolts

Arabic

Mina, Minah, Meena (Arabic: مِينَا mīnā) is an Arabic female given name transformed from the female given name "Amina", but perhaps the Arabic "Mina" is the Persian "Mina" which bears the meaning "stained (tinted) glass mirror", artistic paint (also generic name for enamel or varnish) for porcelain and metal.

Mina El Hammani (born 1993), Spanish-Moroccan actress

Chinese

Mina is a Chinese female given name. It may be written as 米娜, 蜜娜 and 密娜. Na (娜) is a commonly used character in Chinese female names.

Mina Shum (born 1966) is an independent Canadian filmmaker

Cambodian

Mina is a unisex name which means the month of March in the Cambodian language, Khmer. It is written មីនា.

India

Meena is an Indian female given name. The name is derived from Hindi मैना maina ultimately from Sanskrit मदन madana-s, which means "joyful".

Japanese

Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including 美奈, 美那, 南 and 未菜.

Mina Asami (born 1958), Japanese actress
Mina Fukui (born 1984), Japanese actress
Mina Harigae (born 1989), American golfer
Mina Kasai (born 1984), Japanese voice actress
Mina Matsushima (born 1991), Japanese swimmer
Mina Myoi (born 1997), Japanese singer and member of South Korean girl group Twice
Mina Ōba (born 1992), Japanese singer and actress
Mina Tanaka (田中美南, born 1994), Japanese women's footballer
Mina Watanabe (渡邉美奈, born 1985), Japanese judoka

Korean

Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean feminine given names with different hangul spellings. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

For the name Min-a (민아), there are 27 hanja with the reading "min" and 20 hanja with the reading "a" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

Bang Min-ah (born 1993), South Korean singer, member of Girl's Day
Shim Mina (born 1972), South Korean singer
Jung Mina (born 1979), South Korean gayageum singer-songwriter
Shin Min-a (born 1984), South Korean actress
Kwon Mina (born 1993), South Korean singer, member of AOA
Jung Min-ah (born 1994), South Korean actress
Kang Min-ah (born 1997), South Korean actress
Justine Mina Ok (fl. 2000s), Korean American songwriter

For the name Mi-na (미나), there are 31 hanja with the reading "mi" and 16 hanja with the reading "na" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.

Mina Cho (born 1960), South Korean writer
Son Mi-na (born 1964), South Korean handball player
Meena Lee (born 1981), South Korean golfer
Kang Mi-na (born 1999), South Korean singer, member of I.O.I and Gugudan

Persian

Mina (Persian: مینا mīnā) is a female given name in Iran, meaning "azure", "azure sky", "blue (decanter) or glass", "glass bead", or "enamel". Mina is also another name of lapis lazuli (Persian: لاجورد lājward, colloquially "lāzward")

Mina is also the name for the birds mockingbird or myna ('morgh-e-mina' [Persian: مرغِ مينا murgh-i mīnā, literal meaning "Mina bird"]), which easily repeats many sounds like a human voice and the name of the flower marguerite (marguerite daisy) ("gol-e-mina" [Persian: گلِ مينا gul-i mīnā, literal meaning "Mina flower"]).

The Turkish spelling of the name is Mine.

Mina Assadi (born 1943), Iranian poet
Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter
Mina Ahadi (born 1956), Iranian politician
Mina Hadjian (born 1975), Iranian-born Norwegian television host
Mine Ercan (born 1978), Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player

Pashto

Meena or Mina (Pashto: مینه) means "love" in Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and the Pashtun Diaspora of Pakistan, which is the feminine noun for the word "lover" – the masculine form is "māyan میين". Although no source of it as used in a name except for the Persian "Mina". See Meena (disambiguation)

Meena Keshwar Kamal (1956–1987), Afghan women's rights activist

Other

Mina can be a short form of the feminine names Wilhelmina, Hermina or Assimina (in the case of Greek names).

Mina Bruere (died 1937), American banker
Mina Zaman Chowdhury, Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and former Member of Bangladesh Parliament
Mina Loy (1882–1966), English poet
Mina Karadžić, Serbian 19th century poet
Mina (Italian singer) (born 1940), Italian singer
Mina Kimes (born 1985), American journalist
Mina Kostić (born 1969), Serbian folk singer
Mina Mezzadri (1926–2008), Italian playwright and theatre director
Mina Minovici (1858–1933), Romanian forensic scientist
Mina Napartuk (1913–2001), Canadian Inuit artist
Mina Orfanou (born 1982), Greek actress
Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, Greek painter
Mina Popović (born 1994), Serbian volleyball player
Mina Ripia (born 1969), New Zealand Māori musician
Mina Shum, Canadian filmmaker

Fictional

Meenah Peixes in the webcomic Homestuck
Mina (Dragonlance), herald of the One God in Dragonlance
Mina, in the animated series Jelly Jamm
Mina in Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san
Mina, the main character in Mina and the Count
Mina, artist and Trial Captain of Poni Island in Pokémon Sun & Moon and Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon
Mina Aino, Sailor Venus in the Sailor Moon anime and manga series
Mina Ashido in My Hero Academia anime and manga series
Mina Beff in Todd Kauffman's Grojband
Mina Carolina in the anime and manga series Attack on Titan
Mina Harker (née Murray), the protagonist and heroine in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, also appearing in other media
Mina Kim in the game Mystic Messenger
Mina Loveberry, a magical warrior in Star vs. the Forces of Evil
Mina Majikina in the video game Samurai Shodown
Mina McKee in David Almond's children's book Skellig and its prequel My Name is Mina
Mina Mongoose, female mongoose in the comic series Sonic the Hedgehog
Mina Monroe in the animated series Bunnicula
Mina Nakanotani in anime and manga Air Master
Mina Rai in the video game Yandere Simulator
Mina Tepeş in the Japanese manga series Dance in the Vampire Bund
Mina Tsukishiro in the Japanese anime series Getsumento Heiki Mina
Seong Mi-na in the Soul series of fighting video games
Yoo Mi-na in 2012 South Korean television series Time Slip Dr. Jin