Mina (given name)


Mina is a given name with a variety of origins, used as a feminine name in some cultures and a masculine name in others.

Egypt

Mina, Coptic Μήνης is a male given name for Egyptian Coptic Christians.
Mina in the Coptic language means: a person who is Steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined.
Meena is the irregular feminine noun for port. See Mina

Chinese

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

India

Mina is an Indian female given name.

Japanese

Mina is a Japanese feminine given name. It may be written various ways in kanji, including,, and.
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, 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.
For the name Mi-na, 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 is a female given name in Iran, meaning "azure", "glass bead", or "enamel". Also name of mocking bird MYNAH who easy repeating many sounds and human voice – sounds like "morgh-e-mina". And of flower MARGARITA – sounds like "gol-e-mina".
Mina means "love" in Pashto, an Indo-Iranic language spoken in Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of Pakistan, which is the feminine noun for the word "lover" – the masculine form is "māyan ماين". Although no source of it as used in a name except for the Persian "Meena". See Meena
Mina can be a short form of the feminine names Wilhelmina, Hermina or Assimina.