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 Coptic (Bohairic Coptic: , ) is a language family of closely related dialects, representing the most recent developments of the Egyptian language, and historically spoken by the Copts, starting from the third-century AD in Roman Egypt. Coptic ...

(derived from ancient

Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead language, dead Afroasiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large Text corpus, corpus of surviving texts which were made acces ...

) means: a person who is steadfast, committed, unrelenting or determined. * Mina (fl. c. 3100 BC), a.k.a.

Menes Menes (fl. c. 3200–3000 BC; ; egy, mnj, probably pronounced *; grc, Μήνης) was a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt credited by classical tradition with having united Upper and Lower Egypt and as the founder of the ...

, legendary Egyptian ruler and the first pharaoh of Egypt. * St. Mina (

Saint Menas Menas of Egypt (also Mina, Minas, Mena, Meena; el, Άγιος Μηνάς, ; 285 – c. 309), a martyr and wonder-worker, is one of the most well-known Coptic saints in the East and the West, due to the many miracles that are attributed to his in ...

; fl. 3rd century AD), Coptic religious leader (martyr) * Mina, son of Apacyrus (fl. 749 AD), one of the leaders of the

Bashmurian revolts Bashmurian revolts (, ar, ثورة البشموريين) were a series of revolts by the Egyptians in the Bashmur region in the north of the Nile Delta against the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates in the eighth and ninth centuries. Exactly how ma ...

Arabic

Mina, Minah, Meena (

Arabic Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...

: مِينَا ''mīnā'') is an Arabic female given name transformed from the female given name "

Amina Aminatu (also Amina; died 1610) was a Hausa Muslim historical figure in the city-state Zazzau (now city of Zaria in Kaduna State), in what is now in the north-west region of Nigeria. She might have ruled in the mid-sixteenth century. A controv ...

", but perhaps the Arabic "Mina" is the

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

" Mina" which bears the meaning "stained (tinted) glass mirror", artistic paint (also generic name for enamel or varnish) for porcelain and metal. See Mina (disambiguation)

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 Mina Shum (born 1966) is an independent Canadian filmmaker. She is a writer and director of award-winning feature films, numerous shorts and has created site specific installations and theatre. Her features, ''Double Happiness (film), Double Ha ...

(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 are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

, including , , 南 and . *

Mina Asami is a Japanese TV actress and former pink film actress. Life and career Asami made her onscreen debut in a small role in Teruo Ishii's released in October 1979 by Toei. She primarily rose to prominence in six Nikkatsu Roman Porno films in the p ...

(born 1958), Japanese actress *

Mina Fukui is a Japanese former actress, television personality and gravure model from Nabari, Mie Prefecture. She worked under the Horipro talent agency. Career Even though she had been featured as a guest or assistant in several shows during the 1990 ...

(born 1984), Japanese actress *

Mina Harigae Mina Harigae (born November 1, 1989) is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour. As an amateur golfer, she won the 2007 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links. Harigae won the California Women's Amateur Championship for fou ...

(born 1989), American golfer * Mina Kasai (born 1984), Japanese voice actress *

Mina Matsushima is a Japanese swimmer. She competed for Japan at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July t ...

(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 *, Japanese women's footballer *, Japanese judoka

Korean

Mina, Meena, and Minah are various Roman alphabet spellings of two homophonous Korean feminine given names with different

hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...

spellings. The meaning differs based on the

hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

used to write each syllable of the name. For the name Min-a (민아), there are 27 hanja with the reading "

min Min or MIN may refer to: Places * Fujian, also called Mǐn, a province of China ** Min Kingdom (909–945), a state in Fujian * Min County, a county of Dingxi, Gansu province, China * Min River (Fujian) * Min River (Sichuan) * Mineola (Am ...

" 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 Bang Min-ah (; born May 13, 1993), better known by the mononym Minah, is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted as a member of the girl group Girl's Day in 2010 and released her first solo album, ''I Am a Woman Too,'' in 2015. She has a ...

(born 1993), South Korean singer, member of

Girl's Day Girl's Day () is a South Korean girl group formed by Dream T Entertainment in 2010. The group consists of members Sojin, Minah, Yura, and Hyeri. Members Jisun and Jiin officially left the group in 2010, while Jihae left in late 2012. Afte ...

Shim Mina Shim Mina (; born December 1, 1972), known simply as Mina (미나), is a South Korean singer and dancer. She rose to fame at the World Cup in 2002, eventually deciding to become a K-pop singer. On July 7, 2018, Mina married Ryu Philip, a mem ...

(born 1972), South Korean singer *

Jung Mina Jung Mina (born January 31, 1979) is a South Korean musician, known as the first gayageum singer-songwriter. She sings contemporary music and uses non-traditional techniques in her gayageum playing. Early life and career Jung started learning ...

(born 1979), South Korean ''gayageum'' singer-songwriter *

Shin Min-a Shin Min-a (; born 5 April 1984) is a South Korean model and actress best known for starring in television dramas ''A Love to Kill'' (2005), ''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' (2010), '' Arang and the Magistrate'' (2012), ''Oh My Venus'' ...

(born 1984), South Korean actress *

Kwon Mina Kwon Mina (born September 21, 1993) mononymously known as Mina'','' is a South Korean singer and actress. She is best known as a former member of the girl group AOA. Kwon has acted in television dramas, including '' Modern Farmer'' (2014) and ...

(born 1993), South Korean singer, member of AOA *

Jung Min-ah Jung Min-ah (born March 3, 1994) is a South Korean actress. She began her career as a child actress, starring in television dramas such as '' Damo'' (2003), '' Fashion 70's'' (2005) and ''Time Between Dog and Wolf ''Time Between Dog and Wol ...

(born 1994), South Korean actress *

Kang Min-ah Kang Min-ah (; born March 20, 1997), is a South Korean actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such ...

(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 Son Mi-Na (Korean:손미나; born October 8, 1964) is a South Korean team handball player and Olympic champion. She participated at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where she received a silver medal with the South Korean team.

(born 1964), South Korean handball player *

Meena Lee Meena Lee (; born 25 December 1981) is a South Korean professional golfer who plays on the United States-based LPGA Tour. Lee was born in Jeonju, South Korea. She took up golf at the age of fourteen, which is unusually late for a future professi ...

(born 1981), South Korean golfer *

Kang Mi-na Kang Mi-na (; born December 4, 1999), known mononymously as Mina, is a South Korean singer, rapper and actress signed under Jellyfish Entertainment. She is best known for finishing ninth in Mnet's K-pop girl group survival show ''Produce 101' ...

(born 1999), South Korean singer, member of I.O.I and Gugudan

Persian

Mina ( fa, مینا ''mīnā'') is a female given name in Iran, meaning " azure", "azure sky", "blue (

decanter A decanter is a vessel that is used to hold the decantation of a liquid (such as wine) which may contain sediment. Decanters, which have a varied shape and design, have been traditionally made from glass or crystal. Their volume is usually equ ...

) or glass", "glass bead", or "enamel". Mina is also another name of

lapis lazuli Lapis lazuli (; ), or lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. As early as the 7th millennium BC, lapis lazuli was mined in the Sar-i Sang mines, ...

(

: لاجورد ''lājward'',

colloquially Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the style (sociolinguistics), linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom norm ...

"''lāzward''") Mina is also the name for the birds

mockingbird Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the family Mimidae. They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of other birds and the sounds of insects and amphibians, often loudly and in rapid succession. ...

myna The myna (; also spelled mynah) is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Several species have been introduced to areas like ...

('''morgh-e-mina [

: مرغِ مينا ''murgh-i mīnā'', literal meaning "''Mina'' bird"]), which easily repeats many sounds like a human voice and the name of the flower Argyranthemum, marguerite (marguerite daisy) ("gol-e-mina" [

: گلِ مينا ''gul-i mīnā'', literal meaning "''Mina'' flower"]). The Turkish spelling of the name is ''Mine''. *

Mina Assadi Mina Assadi ( fa, مینا اسدی; born March 12, 1943) is an Iranian-born poet, author, journalist and songwriter who lives in exile in Stockholm, Sweden. Author She is known for writing about controversial and provocative subjects, especiall ...

(born 1943), Iranian poet * Mina Nouri (born 1951), Iranian painter *

Mina Ahadi Mina Ahadi ( fa, مینا احدی, Minâ Ahadi, born 1956) is an Iranian-Austrian political activist. As a Communist political activist, she is a member of the Central Committee and Politburo of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. Advocacy ...

(born 1956), Iranian politician * Mina Hadjian (born 1975), Iranian-born Norwegian television host *

Mine Ercan Mine Ercan (born November 26, 1987) is a Turkish female wheelchair basketball player in Guard position. The 4-point player is the captain of the Turkey women's national wheelchair basketball team. Early life Mine Ecan was born on November 26, 19 ...

(born 1978), Turkish women's wheelchair basketball player

Pashto

Mina or Meena ( ps, مینا) means "love" in Pashto, an Eastern Iranian 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

" Mina". See Meena (disambiguation) *

Meena Keshwar Kamal Meena Keshwar Kamal (Pashto/ fa, مینا کشور کمال; 27 February 1956 – 4 February 1987), commonly known as Meena, was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, feminist, women's rights activist and founder of Revolutionary Associati ...

(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 Loy Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Löwy; 27 December 1882 – 25 September 1966) was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to ...

(1882–1966), English poet *

Mina Karadžić Wilhelmina "Mina" Karadžić-Vukomanović ( sr-cyr, Вилхелмина "Мина" Караџић-Вукомановић; 12 July 1828, in Vienna – 12 June 1894, in ''ibidem'') was an Austrian-born Serbian painter and writer. She was born in ...

, Serbian 19th century poet *

Mina (Italian singer) Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian ...

(born 1940), Italian singer *

Mina Kimes Mina Mugil Kimes (born September 8, 1985) is an American journalist who specializes in business and sports reporting. She has written for '' Fortune'', ''Bloomberg News'', and ''ESPN''.Keith J. Kelly, May 7, 2014, ''New York Post''ESPN drafts Blo ...

(born 1985), American journalist * Mina Kostić (born 1969), Serbian folk singer *

Mina Minovici Mina Minovici (; April 30, 1858 – April 25, 1933) was a Romanian forensic scientist, known for his extensive research regarding cadaverous alkaloids, putrefaction, simulated mind diseases, and criminal anthropology. Studies He was born in Bră ...

(1858–1933), Romanian forensic scientist * Mina Orfanou (born 1982), Greek actress *

Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki Mina Papatheodorou-Valiraki ( el, Μίνα Παπαθεοδώρου-Βαλυράκη, translit. ''Mina Papatheodorou-Balyrake'', transcr. ''Mina Papatheodorou Valiraki'' is a Greek painter specialising in sports-related subjects, . Life Valirak ...

, Greek painter *

Mina Popović Mina Popović ( sr-cyr, Мина Поповић; born 16 September 1994) is a Serbian volleyball player. Club career On club level, Popović ha played for OK Crvena Zvezda, Obiettivo Risarcimento, Volley Bergamo, Azzurra Volley San Casciano and ...

(born 1994), Serbian volleyball player *

, Canadian filmmaker

Fictional

* Meenah Peixes in the webcomic ''

Homestuck ''Homestuck'' is an Internet fiction series created by American author and artist Andrew Hussie in the first half of the 2010s. The fourth and best-known of Hussie's four ''MS Paint Adventures'', it originally ran from April 13, 2009 to April 1 ...

'' * Mina (''Dragonlance''), herald of the One God in ''Dragonlance'' * Mina, in the animated series ''

Jelly Jamm ''Jelly Jamm'' is a 3D animated children's television series created by Carlos L. del Rey, Víctor M. López and David Cantolla. The series is a production of Vodka Capital and 737 SHAKER, two Spanish producers based in Madrid and Segovia, res ...

'' * Mina in ''

Karakai Jozu no Takagi-san is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sōichirō Yamamoto. The series features the daily life of Takagi, who loves to tease her classmate Nishikata, and Nishikata's failed attempts to get back at her. In North America, the ...

'' * Mina, the main character in

Mina and the Count ''Mina and the Count'' is an American animated television series created by Rob Renzetti, which was never brought into development as a full-fledged series. Instead, animated shorts of this series aired on both of Fred Seibert's animation anth ...

* 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 is a Japanese superhero manga series written and illustrated by Kōhei Horikoshi. It has been serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' since July 2014, with its chapters additionally collected into ...

'' anime and manga series * Mina Beff in Todd Kauffman's ''

Grojband ''Grojband'' is a Canadian animated television series created by Todd Kauffman and Mark Thornton for Teletoon in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States. Produced by Fresh TV and Neptoon Studios, with animation by Elliott Animation, and p ...

'' * Mina Carolina in the anime and manga series ''

Attack on Titan is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hajime Isayama. It is set in a world where humanity is forced to live in cities surrounded by three enormous walls that protect them from gigantic man-eating humanoids referred to as ...

'' *

Mina Harker Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray) is a fictional character and the main female character in Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. In the novel She begins the story as Miss Mina Murray, a young schoolmistress who is engaged t ...

(née Murray), the protagonist and heroine in Bram Stoker's novel ''Dracula'', also appearing in other media * Mina Kim in the game ''

Mystic Messenger ''Mystic Messenger'' (, lit. "Mysterious Messenger") is a South Korean otome game developed by Cheritz. It was released on July 8, 2016 for Android and August 18, 2016 for iOS. The game is described as a "storytelling messenger game" and is av ...

'' * Mina Loveberry, a magical warrior in ''

Star vs. the Forces of Evil ''Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' is an American animated magical girl television series created by Daron Nefcy and developed by Jordana Arkin and Dave Wasson, which aired on Disney Channel and Disney XD. It is the first Disney XD series created b ...

'' * Mina Majikina in the video game ''Samurai Shodown'' * Mina McKee in David Almond's children's book ''

Skellig ''Skellig'' is a children's novel by the British author David Almond, published by Hodder in 1998. It was the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year and it won the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstandi ...

'' and its prequel '' My Name is Mina'' * Mina Mongoose, female

mongoose A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae. This family is currently split into two subfamilies, the Herpestinae and the Mungotinae. The Herpestinae comprises 23 living species that are native to so ...

in the comic series ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...

'' * Mina Monroe in the animated series

Bunnicula ''Bunnicula'' is a children's novel series. The first installment was written by James and Deborah Howe, and introduced a vampire rabbit named Bunnicula who sucks the juice out of vegetables. After the sudden death of his wife in 1978, Howe con ...

* Mina Nakanotani in anime and manga ''

Air Master is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yokusaru Shibata. It was serialized in Hakusensha's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Young Animal'' from 1996 to 2006, with its chapters collected in twenty-eight ''tankōbon'' volumes. The st ...

'' * Mina Rai in the video game ''

Yandere Simulator ''Yandere Simulator'' is a stealth action video game currently in development by American game developer YandereDev. The game centers upon an obsessively lovesick schoolgirl named Ayano Aishi, nicknamed " Yandere-chan", who has taken it upon ...

'' * 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 The following is a comprehensive list of characters from the ''Soulcalibur'' series of video games, beginning with ''Soul Edge'' (''Soul Blade'') in 1995. Overview The ''Soulcalibur'' series is a weapon-based fighting game franchise developed b ...

in the ''Soul'' series of fighting video games * Yoo Mi-na in 2012 South Korean television series '' Time Slip Dr. Jin''

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