Given name & surname
Min
“woman from the South”·“one who is greatly loved”
Min is a variant of Mina. Interpretations include “woman from the South” and “one who is greatly loved”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Min is a variant of Mina. Interpretations include “woman from the South” and “one who is greatly loved”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1953. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Min through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 638
- 395 boys · 243 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −80%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 17 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,776 as a first name in 2020; 7,751 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Min’s family of names
In English usage, Min has a related form in Ming. Min has a related form in Mina. In English usage, Min has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form مين.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Min
- Namkoong MinSouth Korean actorborn 1978
- Min Jin LeeAmerican writerborn 1968
- Zhang MinChinese rower (born 1993)
- Li Mindaughter of Mao Zedongborn 1936
- Min AyahanaJapanese manga artistborn 1969
- Sharla CheungHong Kong actressborn 1967
- Min Li MartiSwiss politicianborn 1974
- Yu MinChinese nuclear physicist1926–2019
- Choi SangSouth Korean actor (1987-)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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