Mina

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Mina is ranked 608th among girls in 2024 (493 births). Its best rank was 175th, in 1880.

Rank in 2024: #608down 22 from 2023
Births in 2024: 4930.03% of girls
Peak year: 2023512 births
Best rank: #175in 1880
Since 1880: 19,429people given the name

Babies named Mina, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

18,772 girls have been named Mina in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 512 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 2010s alone account for 20%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 657 boys have also been given it, 3.4% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Mina
1880s	773
1890s	1,009
1900s	756
1910s	1,288
1920s	1,236
1930s	863
1940s	700
1950s	577
1960s	522
1970s	431
1980s	635
1990s	1,232
2000s	2,555
2010s	3,760
2020s	2,435

In 2023, its biggest year

Mina was the 586th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2023 were Olivia, Emma, Charlotte, Amelia and Sophia. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Mina

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Minna3,122 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.