Minna (name)

Minna is female given name. Its origin from Hebrew Child of Earth. In Yiddish Minna (מִּינָא) translates as Peaceful. In Germany Minna is a nickname of Wilhelmina or Hermina. It is also a Finnish short form of Vilhelmina. The similar form of Wilma and Willa.

Variant Mina meaning heaven in an old Turkish. Mina meaning fish in Sanskrit. Mina meaning South in Japanese language. Form Minako meaning beautiful child.

Nicknames

Minnie, Mineczka, Minka, Mina

Name days

• Czech: 7th April (Hermina) or 7th January (Wilhelmina)

Famous bearers

• Mína Maxová Oymen, a daughter of Czech model Tereza Maxová and Turkish bussines man Burak Oymen.
• Minnie Driver, a British actress
• Minnie Riperton, folk singer
• Mina Karadžić, a Serbian poet
• Mina (narozena 1940), an Italian singer
• Mina Kostić, a Serbian folk singer
• Mina Papatheodorou, a Greekpainter
• Minna Aaltonen, a Finnish actress
• Mina Badie, a British actess
• Minna Canth, a Finnish writer and a social activist
• Minna Citron, an American painter
• Minna Herzlieb, a German journalist
• Minna Mäki-Kala, Winner of Beauty Contest in Miss Globe International
• Minna Planer, a German actress and first wife of Richard Wagner
• Minna Salmela, a Finnish freestyle swimmer
• Mina, a name of daughter in Hindu goddess Ushi and god Kubera.
• Maria Minna, a Canadian politician

Fictional Minnie's and Mina's

• Minnie Mouse, a friend of Mickey Mouse
• Minnie the Moocher, a song of year 1991 from Cab Calloway
• Mina Harker, a character of Dracula
• Mina Mongoose, a chracter mongoose from Sonic the Hedgehog

Name variants

• Minna (German), (English), (Danish)
• Minka (Polish)
• Mína (Czech), (Slovak)