Given name & surname · also Greek
Minas
“Menas of Egypt”
Minas is a masculine given name from Greek, ultimately from Armenian. It is used in English and French.
Original GreekΜηνάς
Meaning & origin
What it means
Minas is a romanization of Մինաս. Մինաս goes back to Ancient Greek Μηνᾶς, meaning “Menas of Egypt.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Minas comes from Greek, and ultimately from Armenian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Greek Μηνάς, from Spanish Minas, from Armenian Մինաս.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1973. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Minas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 117
- 117 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2023
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 507 as a first name in 2020; 559 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.
Minas’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Minas is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Մինաս. In Greek usage, Minas as a surname is a transliteration of Μήνας. In French usage, Minas has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Μηνάς.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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