girls:
18.3k births since 1880
#1095 (81st percentile)
boys:
644 births since 1980
#3943 (14th percentile)
overall:
18.9k births since 1880
#1868 (76th percentile)
The name Mina is the #1,868 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,920 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,095 (80.9% percentile) for all time with 18,276 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,943 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 644 births since 1980.
Mina has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1980 for boys).
The name Mina has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mina reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 47.3% percentile (ranked #500) with 292 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 748 births per million (ranked 30.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mina ranks #500 for girls (47.3% percentile) with 292 births per million, which is 39.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mina reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #895) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mina ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 39.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mina".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Mina is pronounced as MEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-nuh, at 25.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like M IY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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